I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
People want to see a magical fairytale story, but the reality is that I spent a lot of time making music alone in my bedroom.
I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.
I write all my own songs, so if it goes wrong, I don't co-write anything. It's all going to fall on me.
I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.
People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.
Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.
It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.
I've always written by myself. I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don't work that way.
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself.
I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It's my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it's more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively.
Working solo means you don't have to account for anybody else. You do it yourself, so you're not trying to please others as well as yourself; you're just trying to do the best you can.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!
