The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job..

I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the….

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom..

Writing has never been a driving force within me..

One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myse….

I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating look inside the reality of what that whole ma….

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing charac….

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism..

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan..

But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big ways. We're writing things that….

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultim….

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous..

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out wi….

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding pres….

Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are bet….

...a good poem contains both meaning and music.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism..

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life..

My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. Th….

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writi….

It's an easier task to imagine someone's interior world when you feel quite distanced from them. In the same way that I find writing about Australia ….