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		When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lisa Marie Presley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Becky G 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Thebe Neruda Kgositsile 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bebe Rexha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing is a form of licensed madness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mal Peet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. P. Lovecraft 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm Arnold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camila Cabello 
			 
			
				Fifth Harmony  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ornette Coleman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damon Galgut 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Young Thug 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mal Peet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paul Simon 
			 
			
				Simon & Garfunkel  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christopher Meloni 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damon Wayans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Alexander 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bobbie Ann Mason 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lisa Marie Presley