When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.
I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.
I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.
I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.
I really feel something's missing if I'm not writing.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.
I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.
I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.
