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Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

I knew Chester. I've known Chester since 2001. I was in a band called Dry Cell, and we were signed by the same guy that signed Linkin Park, so that's how I knew him. He would come to some of our writing sessions and rehearsals; I'd see him in the studios that we were at.

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Every actor just wants good writing.

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my life where I started to see money differently.

A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.