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I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.