I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”
“I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.”