Robby Takac Quotes
I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
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The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly.
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I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.
