The moment you know you know you know.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.