Creative Timeline Quotes

If I focus solely on developing new material, then I can get a new 45 minute to an hour in about six months. Then I'll work on it and work on it and can make it killer within another six months or so.

My first album was completed in three months.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.

The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!