I would like to write my biography sometime. I love to write. I could write for weeks and weeks, maybe say nothing but just for the writing.
I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
You know how you have that one thing you would do even if you're not getting paid to do it? That's what writing music is for me.
For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't even inspired to write because it was your job. That's how passion, creativity, and love gets killed.
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
