The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.
I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
I am inspired just by the way a scene can be interpreted by the actors. It can make a huge difference on the type of music that you write. It's best for me if I don't work at all on a project until the movie is shot and I have some sort of edit in front of me.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.