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I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I don't write letters anymore.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

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.