Broad Quote by Brendon Urie

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

— David Gilmour

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

— Miranda Lambert

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

— Billy Sherwood

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is…

— Matt Berninger

Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are…

— M. Shadows

There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought…

— David Longstreth

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

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

If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not…

— Kacey Musgraves

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

— Yasmine Hamdan

The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

— Robin Pecknold

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

— Matt Berninger