In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.
After so many attempts to mount a musical version of 'Lolita,' the project was well and truly dead by the summer of 1971. Chief among those relieved: Vladimir Nabokov.
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does, but artists especially, we torture ourselves. So it's good for me to immerse myself in somebody else's work.
Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.
You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
I no longer feel the pressure of trying to write hits for the radio anymore.
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
