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I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

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

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.