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To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.