In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.