The experiences I go through... everything you hear in my lyrics is real. Good or bad, I take it all in and put it all on the mic.
Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private.
I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is...
You can go to some countries where people may not be able to converse with you, but they can sing your lyrics word for word.
When you're young and haven't experienced love yet, Taylor's lyrics are so wonderfully heart-breaking and dramatic, so much fun.
Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.
I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all...
In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics was something new to me.
There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.
I've always wanted to work with Klashnekoff. He's been around for years! He's sorta my age but he is dope. The flow, the lyrics, it's just dope music.
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me not to make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio hit records. 'Make a Gang Starr track and we'll write our lyrics to that,' they told me. They...
When I was young, even though I received so much love, I used to pay attention to people who disliked me. That's why my lyrics were so sharp and dark.
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were too mature for my age!
The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.
When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the...
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.