Writing Quotes

There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

I only write first editions.

Whatever I write in email, it doesn’t mean anything. It is just words I write.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.