Write Quotes

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

I write about what I'm going through.