Writing Quotes

I was never too keen on the British music press. They’ve called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn’t write our own songs.

I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.

If I’m not passionate about it, I can’t write it. I can’t fake it.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called Fingers Crossed.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

In terms of love, you’re not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I’m a very tragic person. But there’s always an element of humor at the end.

You can make anything by writing.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.