Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband…

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

— P. J. Soles

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life…

— Dana Spiotta

My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.

— Claire Coffee

You see Ive written like a million poems hoping that somehow maybe someway youll jump out of the page and be closer to me…

— Rudy Francisco

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

— Tom Hayden

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction…

— Justine Larbalestier

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the…

— Stephen Sondheim

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

— Taylor Swift

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

— Michael Ignatieff

I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the…

— Robin Wasserman

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be…

— Alissa White-Gluz

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves…

— Van Morrison

“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

— Beverley Nichols

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started…

— Amy Winehouse

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive…

— Jerome Rothenberg