One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.
Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
I write in American slang.
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
I write about what I'm going through.
When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
I write what I'm interested in.
Everything I write is about me.
Trust me, I write fiction.
I write out of my intellectual experience.
I write in a small office at home.
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
And I love writing. I've always loved writing.
Everything I write has an unsettling edge.
I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.
I write for myself things that I've gone through.
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
I write about living, not dying.
