Writing Quotes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you’re writing your own music, then it’s important to be really honest.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!