Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on..

I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with a sense of satisfaction….

Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people….

When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book. I also put the characters in a ….

Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly..

I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do so much non- organic for a l….

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write..

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those….

I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in a church in their entire lives and people who woul….

And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere that you're trying to write abou….

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did….

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. ….

you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it..

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having mor….

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the child….

To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t kn….

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too….

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for on….

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. Th….

The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, com….