At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.
I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.
I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
I've never been a morning person, ever. I hate the morning. I have more energy at night.
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.
I like to work at night.
I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.
I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
My mind starts to work creatively past 10 P.M. or 11 P.M. - all of a sudden there's silence and my head starts going.
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine - it hurts my eyes. When I used to live in more communal circumstances, I had to wait until everyone had gone to bed before I had the peace to write, and I still find I can get on with my writing much better at night.
I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.
If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.
I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call 'the spirits' actually show up, and then I just go in the booth and scream on top of a track. I only sing on the mic. I don't sit down and write anything.
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.
I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.
I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.
Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone.
I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
