When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.