Day Quote by Beth Hart

I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.

— Lou Barlow

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came…

— Dawn Richard

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

— Melora Hardin

When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after,…

— Kiran Ahluwalia

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I…

— Kim Gordon

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

— Gwen Stefani

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics…

— Zach Condon

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything…

— Snoh Aalegra

I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on song craft…

— Stella Soleil

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim