Write Quotes
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!
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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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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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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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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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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
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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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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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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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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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Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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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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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I could probably have an idea one day and then go into the studio and really wanna write about just that idea that I have in mind. Or it can vary with just a simple beat and I just do a bunch of melodies on the track that inspire me.
