Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.
Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
I write a thousand words a day.
I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.
It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.