Jon Hopkins Quotes

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

I'm somewhat in my own cloud.

I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going.

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.

I like living in the city. I really don't like the suburbs.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

I love living downtown.

One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.