My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
I don't really like to explain my songs.
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.
Write from your heart, write with blood and courage.
Everything I write is a rebound.
The truth is that most writers are needy.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
I write about families. That is who we are.
I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.
I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.
One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
