I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
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.
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.
