Quotes About Lyrics

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.

I do like to write about dark subjects.

My music reflects the time on which we live, both in terms of arrangements, as well as in the subjects treated in the lyrics.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.

Patty Loveless is the big influence for me. Loving her music, loving how she wrote songs, loving the kind of songs she cut. A strong woman with true substance to her lyrics, but songs that just felt so good.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

I try to be careful how much I sing about the suburban house or whatever.

If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Because the song is us and the song is her and this time I'm going to use her name. Norah, Norah, Norah - no rhymes really. Just truth. I shouldn't want the song to end. I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.

And I'm moved, it's so beautiful. Not what I wrote, but to have it given back like this. To have her remember the words and the tune. To hear it in her voice.

A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us up the same way when we sing it.

We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us in the same way when we sing it.

We wrote 'Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

I used to write at home a lot. I used to write a bit for Girls Aloud.

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.