Mick Jones Quotes

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

I write what I'm interested in.

I essentially write for myself.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

All my songs are where I am.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.