Writing Quotes

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

When I’m writing, I’m locking myself in a room. I’m the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I’m like “Vin, you’re retarded, that makes no sense.”

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.