I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And eve….

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main con….

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry..

Always sing below your potential..

There was lots of pleasure in writing The Flamethrowers. Then again, what is pleasure? Some pleasure is easy and other kinds are never quite felt, ex….

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would w….

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business..

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them..

It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can ref….

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday..

Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, wri….

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affir….

I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I ru….

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or wo….

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enoug….

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?.

I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently..

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you wa….

It is not customary to love what one has..

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sen….

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans..