inspiration drought Quotes

It's hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you've just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

Blur' is about feeling lost, and on a personal level I would be lying if I didn't mention that this song, for me, was about feeling creatively and artistically lost in the city of all great opportunities, Los Angeles.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had really serious cases of it, and I've never been paralyzed like that, but I definitely get blocked sometimes. More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.