Tommy Lee Quotes

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

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

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

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like, the worst. It turns into a ska song even if I'm trying to write like a horror movie sound track or something.

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.