I want to write music that will outlive me..

I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart..

I think all writing is political. All writing shows a preoccupation with something, whatever that thing might be, and by putting pen to paper you are….

'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it….

I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I….

I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen….

In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidat….

I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and….

I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way of writing the album, to make it like a job - a ro….

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing..

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply..

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some goo….

They write them long because they can't write them short..

Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful. When you revisit t….

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a….

The challenge is to write about real things magically..

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies..

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're g….