If life is worth living then it's worth recording.
If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.
I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.
I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music.
I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.
I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.
The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down life instead of living it.
You live in a bubble, generally, when you're touring and recording - you're in confined - in alone space, wherever you are, in the dressing room or in the studio - so sometimes it's hard to grasp that bigger picture of things that are going on.
Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture 'cause you’re too busy recording it; so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.
I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later!
