You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

I'm not sure it's entirely a good thing... I've always loved the gutter.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look …

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions: Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to re…

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.