Obviously, I write all of my lyrics from my heart and my…

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

— Kylie Minogue

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film,…

— Chazz Palminteri

“Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die , the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people like me.”

— Neil Gaiman

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can…

— Alice Munro

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

— Thom Yorke

'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

— Sia

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

The weirdest place I have ever written a song is probably in an airport, and I got an idea so fast that I just…

— Taylor Swift

I always say the wrestlers provide the music and the announcers write the lyrics. You have to feel what you're seeing and experiencing to…

— Jim Ross

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

— Lindsay Lohan

I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that…

— Kim Nam-joon

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

— Peter Frampton

Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the word 'babe,' for instance. It…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan