When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the morning, I can write them in the evening; as long as they get done.
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
I write from my stomach.
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
I write on all instruments.
To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.
Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
All of my songs are autobiographical.
I like songs that are simple.
Life is a song to me.
My songs are like my kids.
We became the songs we wrote.
A rhyme doesn't make a song.
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