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That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

I'm not particularly prolific.

Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate.