I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.
I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.
I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.
What's really fun is to write under different names.
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.