Joanna Scott Quotes

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

I can't allow myself to censor myself.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.

I wanted to be my own editor, and by 'editor,' I mean unedited-or.

I love to do the stream-of-consciousness thing, because it's exciting for me, and I like to think it's exciting for the audience, too.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

When I'm in the studio, I just let it rip. That's my process. I get in the booth, and whatever is on my mind at the time, I just go off and say it.

My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.

Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.