Top 36 Quotes by Duncan Sheik

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

I actually am always a music first person.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.