” When you’re interviewing someone, even your mother – you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what’s the best way to get the information from that person. “
” First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. “
” If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. “
” People don’t realize you’re blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it’s got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I’m home. “
” Until you expose the cancer, you can’t fix it. “
” As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I’m a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow, I’m not Henry David Thoreau. “
” I just don’t see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It’s all in God’s hands. “
” If you don’t have humor, you’re not going to make it. You’re going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode. “
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