I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous fantasy, and I was fine with making changes for the actors that made them comfortable.
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid. . . it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
To me, God is the basic Reality of the universe. God is what is. That's how Moses wrote that God introduced Himself, isn't it? "I am that I am. " God is. Whatever is, that is God.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently was read by America's top corporate leaders, and overnight put me in high demand as a consultant and as a speaker. Also, that book forever changed the way businesses look at and deal with crises by giving a tangible feel to an otherwise intangible subject.
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.
I wrote a few children's books. . . not on purpose.
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
I haven't even read everything I wrote.
As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention. ' I wrote a song about it.
Before I had my daughter I actually wanted to do something that I could put out for free, like a mixtape, but it wasn't going to really be a mixtape, it was just going to be songs that I wrote and release for free.