Jon Hopkins Quotes

Jon Hopkins

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 15, 1979

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

Jon Hopkins

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

Jon Hopkins

Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound.

Jon Hopkins

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

Jon Hopkins

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

Jon Hopkins

It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically.

Jon Hopkins

I'm a bit snobbish about breakfast: eggs benedict, or eggs royale, or something like that. Or just some really amazing, proper brown toast with smoked salmon, lemon, and black pepper. That's a great start to the day.

Jon Hopkins

I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.

Jon Hopkins

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

Jon Hopkins

You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.

Jon Hopkins

I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.

Jon Hopkins

Singularity' goes through a process of purification and signification. If you listen to it, you can hear quite a chaotic and disruptive beginning and by the end, you're in such an opposite zone.

Jon Hopkins

Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.

Jon Hopkins

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

Jon Hopkins

I got this pretend grass stuff called LazyLawn on my roof. Now I can go out on my terrace in bare feet, and it looks exactly like a lawn. This is what science should be for.

Jon Hopkins

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

Jon Hopkins

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

Jon Hopkins

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

Jon Hopkins

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.

Jon Hopkins

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.

Jon Hopkins