Quotes About Lyrics

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh!

Lord knows, I love a brainless pop song.

For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.

When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.

I love a good, poppy chorus.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay.

I was obsessed with what a song was and what the possibilities of language in a song are.

Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

I feel like the first album contained a lot of personal songs, like 'The Foundation' or 'Carry the Weight.'

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

I always made my songs very conversational, and if anyone ever has a conversation with me, they know I'm a very open guy, very open and honest.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling.

If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.