Careful Quote by Avril Lavigne

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

— Avey Tare

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.

— Jennifer Rothschild

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

— Tyler, The Creator

I don't have trouble being brutally honest with my lyrics.

— Griff

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex…

— Don McLean

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

— Hutch Harris

Christian songs are more my personal testimony. I don't say things I don't believe in on secular records, but I am going for the…

— Philip Bailey

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

— David Gilmour

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

— Mike Scheidt

Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics…

— Stephen Malkmus

My lyrics are about same-sex relationships, because that's who I am. It was important to me that I felt comfortable expressing myself.

— Olly Alexander