Quotes About Lyrics

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

when you were young and your heart was an open book you used to say live and let live.

Life is nothing more than a series of lyric snippets from Bruce Springsteen songs.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold 'Is there a chorus?' Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.' said Hwel. 'You left out a gold there.

I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...

I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just kind of come across in your rhythm and the way that you lock in on the music.

Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it's just something that comes in your brain.

What made '400 Degreez' great is that Juvenile already had those raps. He already knew them. It was something that he knew every one of those raps.

I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer.

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

Sophie does more of the writing, lyrical stuff; I do more of the sitting at the computer and the board stuff. But it blurs. If we're both really feeling it, then we'll keep going with the song.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

There's so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop.

I just want to get to that point where I'm able to fully create music that's good lyrically and quality-wise as far as the way it's knocking and everything.