Productivity Routine Quotes

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

I just start my day really early. Everything happens in the morning time. Writing. Just everything. I can't - I don't know how to work late.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.

Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.