Quotes About Lyrics

I still know the lyrics to pretty much any 'Mary Poppins' song.

The musical style and sound of 'Love You to Death' is something I wanted to do from the moment I started working on this album. It's a very masculine track with dramatic lyrics.

Eminem is a master.

When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were too mature for my age!

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.

I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.

Some songs just resonate with you.

I think one thing that's amazing about 'Resurrection' is that we weren't afraid to lay it all out there lyrically.

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And when it comes to lyrics, it's an agonizing process.

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.

The women really seemed to like 'Rough Boy.'

I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still try to write lyrics.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.