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Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

You know, my problem is I can't say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.