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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.
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