Trouble, Troublemaker yeah that's your middle name Ooh

I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought…

— Olly Murs

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people…

— Olly Murs

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in…

— Warsan Shire

“Or you can just start speaking up... -Brave”

— Sara Bareilles

I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' isn't…

— Anne Applebaum

“Don't run Stop holding your tongue”

— Sara Bareilles

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

— Julian Casablancas

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel,…

— Jennifer Warnes

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and…

— Imogen Heap

“So wake me up when its all over -Wake Me Up”

— Avicii

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling…

— James Fenton

I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a…

— David Levithan

..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've…

— Mindy Kaling