102 Quotes by Jon Hopkins

I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to continue with it.

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.

I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.

My first ever show in America was opening for Coldplay at Madison Square Garden. Nobody in that audience could have known who I was. It was almost like it was an accident, like I was in someone else's dream.

A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.

I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each one.

I've always been obsessed with contrast in records, and using harsher elements to make the quieter ones more powerful.