Closing Quote by David Bowie

I'm very careful about each lyric now. It can't just be a throwaway. And if it is, then we scrap it.

— Lola Young

I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and…

— Jane Siberry

Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.

— Rob Halford

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

— Sia

Few things anger me more than having a song stuck in my head that I don't know the lyrics to.

— Anonymous

For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to…

— Torquil Campbell

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work.…

— Tom Scholz

Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to…

— Sia

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say…

— Paul Simon

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

— Elizabeth Fraser

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

— Nate Ruess

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

— Barry Mann