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I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.