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.
Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
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.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
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.
I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
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.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Some people take pictures; I write songs.
I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
I write a thousand words a day.
