Quotes About Lyrics

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side ..." ( Englishman in New York )

Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.

Dylan's Blood on The Tracks.

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

In '88, '89, '90, '91... When I was making these albums, it would be four or five songs that didn't have any curse words, that were about social issues in the community.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

I write songs with melodies, which have sold for decades.

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.