It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was...
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
