Writing Quotes

I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.

I don’t really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

Reading has always been my sweetest escape, but I write to convey that which I want to escape or what scares me to say, even if it’s something positive.

Write clean and dirty.

If I’m not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw ’em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we’ll have a unique song by the end of it.

A mixtape is for the street, it’s something you without necessarily thinking about it because you have to stay in the game. It’s like writing an e-mail saying hello to your friends.

The only time I get upset by things written about me – when people write irresponsible things about my weight… I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

There’s still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.