Heads Quotes (page 10)
![Daniel Defoe quote: "It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep,..."](/pic/188937/600x316/quotation-daniel-defoe-it-is-better-to-have-a-lion-at-the-head-of-an-army.jpg)
![Emo Philips quote: "My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my..."](/pic/166608/600x316/quotation-emo-philips-my-jokes-are-in-my-head-and-i-have-a-duplicate-copy.jpg)
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
Stevie Wonder
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Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.
Tony Parsons