I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in t….

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop..

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart..

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE..

I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me I'm a big softy! Writing songs to me….

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing..

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song..

Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United Sta….

One writes to teach, to move or to delight..

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me..

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse..

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the ….

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else..

That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think u….

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the En….

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more..

One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, ….

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script..

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetr….

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come ….

I felt that we started to go through the motions. Our hearts weren't there. Because we were always working on the band, and it became more about sell….