Elizabeth Cook and Lydia Loveless

“People that write from their life are always writing. I'm never not writing. I'm always on input if I'm not on output.”—Elizabeth Cook

“The key to a good writing process is allowing yourself to be bored.”—Lydia Loveless.

Elizabeth Cook and Lydia Loveless have some great advice for writers of any stripe in this interview. Like Cook, I’ve always told people that good writers understand that the actual pen-to-paper part of the writing process is only a small part of it. And like Loveless, I don’t think an idea for writing has ever come after sitting down to think about what to write.

We talk about how Pilot Pens (black), hot toddies, and voodoo deities played an important role in the creative process behind their last albums. Watch our Zoom interview to find out which one of them ate corndogs on Christmas day as part of that process!