Lyrics Quote by Devi Sri Prasad

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

When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."

— Walter Martin

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional…

— Boz Scaggs

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

— David Gilmour

When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

— Connie Smith

I have to worry how other women and girls will react to my music. Will they really understand the message that I'm trying to…

— Natti Natasha

When a girl asks a guy to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics are all the words she's afraid to say.

— Anonymous

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no…

— Laura Jane Grace

I have never composed a song keeping in mind that I should touch any social issues.

— Atif Aslam

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back…

— Yannis Philippakis

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was…

— Myles Kennedy

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs…

— George Michael