I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
At night I can write for hours.
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.
I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.
Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
