Paul Westerberg Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Truth, Writing

• Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

  Paul Westerberg

  Music, Mom, Dad

• Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Writing, Feet

• The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

  Paul Westerberg

  Suicide, Writing, Darkness

• I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

  Paul Westerberg

  Writing, Boys, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.

  Paul Westerberg

  Smart, Writing, People

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