Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.
What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.