Quotes About Lyrics

Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

Years ago, when I first fell in love with country music, part of the reason was that it was so much from the heart. It was so simple, lyrically, everything. It was just the simplicity.

'Wafa Na Raas Aayee' is at its core a very pure, simple song. Its beauty lies in its simplicity and who better than Jubin Nautiyal to express the pain and emotions that the song is trying to convey.

My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.

The surprise turned out to be songs: "Our Unforgettable Teacher" and the "Song of Suki," a regional folksong they had been vaguely aware of, whose lyrics they had searched out during their August vacation and written down neatly on a piece of paper as a parting gift.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.

I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.

The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

When I'm home alone I just dance by myself And you pull my head so close volume goes with the truth Signing off 'I'm alright in bed but I'm better with a pen' The kid was alright but it went to his head

My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

Son, can you play me a memory. I'm not really sure how it goes. It was sad and it was sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.