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We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

You've got to write for your audience.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.