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When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.