I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.