#rite

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians. ↗

— Chad Smith

#as far as #creative #far #feel #flea

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ↗

— Neil Cross

#literary-fiction #literature #writers #writing #experience

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored. ↗

— John M. Smith

#criteria #how #imposes #information #stored

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#learned #much #pretty #read #school

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #i feel #like #me #real

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#band #band members #being #camera #does

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#autobiography #i #i write #life #my life

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#bit #ego #excited #get #i

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#heard #i #musicians #think #underrated

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #back #care #eating #every