You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!
I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.
I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.
For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.
