When I'm not writing I read loads of fiction but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy religion science history social or cultural studies.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people and then they come after you with machetes.

I was writing short films and I was going through this really really really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.

My relationship with Music Row has always been from my end optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing recording and marketing of an album.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Writing is my obsession my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

When I was confronted with official tuition the academic thing I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

When writing comedy you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world and we are all having it that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.