Writing Quotes

I’m good at melody – I’ll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I’m not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal – you have a wish.

I am writing these poems From inside a lion.

Early on, if I was alone two-three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.

She writes with an ache, its one that feels like you.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

I think most people don’t know that I really write everything myself. No help. There’s nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don’t think I’m a singer. They think I’m a rapper.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.