All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear. . . I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.
Everything works if you let it
I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.
I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.
I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.
If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of ACDC.
How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.
You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.
Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.