Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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