I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.
I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.