Writing Quotes

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

There are moments in a film when the written word for you, becomes the written word for the Universe.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

I feel like ‘Next To Me’ is a great introduction because it’s a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I’m proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

You’ll never be able to silence the woman who was born to write.

I didn’t become a writer to write about me.

That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

Until you know who you are you can’t write.