Write Quotes
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.
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It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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I like to process things and I do like to write about what I’m feeling and when something really emotionally hits me, whether it’s joyful or traumatic, I know I need to write about it to get that experience out.
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I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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When you write for someone else, you're being an actor, the feeling is the feeling of another.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
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It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
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I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.
