Quotes About Lyrics

Tupac was actually pro-choice, which is fantastic. Of course, those moments in rap are few and far between.

Who doesn't love Tupac? Those records have such swagger to them. The groove is just incredible.

I enjoy Tupac's music. I enjoy Tupac.

I've always been a huge Tupac fan, and I often listen to him for inspiration or when I'm stuck.

'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

I love Future. 'Turn on the Lights' is the best song ever. You can cry to it. You can relate to it.

Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.

I recorded my first song at 15. But I started rhyming a few years before that. At first it was trading lyrics at school. We'd get in a circle in the playground with a beat-boxer and spit rhymes. Then it would turn into a big gathering after school.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

Alex Turner is one of my heroes - his lyrics are genius.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

'Turtle' is one of our favorite ballad songs that we've written. It is very quiet but also so bright.

It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.

Seeing people Tweet my lyrics and really feeling for me, feeling what I'm feeling... in one of my lyrics I sing about 'the watch I just got for you,' and some girl was like, 'Yes! I bought him a watch!' I can be happy because these women feel me.

Sometimes I hold back from tweeting certain things. Sometimes you're emotional, and you want to tweet a lyric or whatever it may be. I can't do that because if I do, it's, 'Oh, this means this and that she must be going through this...' It's like, what the hell?

When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.