I used to THINK, 'How can I write my LIFE story? I'm STILL LIVING it.'

TODAY, I'm very careful not to MENTION very specific locations when I WRITE or GIVE captions.

Although I WRITE screenplays, I don't THINK I'm a very GOOD WRITER.

I WORK every day. I write every day. I walk AROUND in SILENT conversation with my latest unfinished songs.

I WRITE what I'm INTERESTED in.

It's hard to WRITE haiku. I write long, SILLY INDIAN POEMS.

I WRITE of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a TERRIFYING CONCEPT.

Though 'Fire and RAIN' is very PERSONAL, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I WRITE things for personal REASONS, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

I WRITE PRETTY MUCH year-round, but I DEFINITELY do more when a DEADLINE is looming.

I don't USE a PEN. I WRITE with a GOOSE quill dipped in venom.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an AIM CONTRARY to his own: for he WROTE his Essays only for others, and I WRITE my reveries only for myself.

I like to SING. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You SIGN a lease that says, I will write country songs and PAY my RENT on time.

I write ADULT FICTION, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to GROW up and MOVE past JK Rowling they can move to me. From JO to Jodi!

I WRITE, and I SING, and I play a LITTLE GUITAR. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!

I WANT to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write SONGS.