Writing On The Road Quotes

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Even when I'm travelling - which is when I do most of my writing - I have a little portable keyboard.

I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in the hotel room, backstage, sitting at home.

I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.

I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people in and out of the bus. It's really difficult to do. So I just keep a notebook with me, and I jot down ideas. I schedule appointments to write.

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.