I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.
My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.
I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.
I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.
You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.