I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.
I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
I made one untitled piece.
Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.