Write Quotes
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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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I can read and arrange, but I can't write.
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I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.
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I've never been able to write for stand-up.
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People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.
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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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Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.
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Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.
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If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
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I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
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To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
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I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
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My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.
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As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
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Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
