I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
I have a lot of books I want to write.
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.
And as your writing evolves, what you need and get from it evolves.
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.
I have ideas that I will probably never write now.
