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I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

I'm not a great writer.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.