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'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.
When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
I think one of the toughest things is that balancing act of trying to maintain relationships while being on the road.
