I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff…

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

— Aisha Tyler

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play…

— Tom Petty

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines,…

— Paolo Nutini

I write everything from an acoustic guitar.

— Jelly Roll

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every…

— Avril Lavigne

When I can do an acoustic set, I can sit down and sing. And then when I have a huge arena full of people,…

— Avril Lavigne

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down…

— Nicholas Sparks

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y…

— Will Self

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something…

— John Zorn

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot…

— Stephen King

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's…

— Michael Ian Black

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis