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I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

Writing isn't about performing. Writing is like looking for treasure, so it's sort of like you're out in the field. I wouldn't wear a suit when I was digging for treasure, but I like to wear a suit when I show the world what I found.

I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.'

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.

When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.

I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

There's one thing I know for sure: When I'm most opinionated, my writing sucks.

Writing is my therapy.

I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.

What I love about sketch is that the writing of it is idea-based. It's not story-based. It's like, 'This is a behavior, and we're going to write, in a small sample, the funniest way to heighten this behavior.' Sitcoms or movies are about story.