When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
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I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.
Writing music is just something that I was born to do.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.
I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
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