Always Quote by Gilbert O'Sullivan

I hate it when I am singing a song and the artist gets the words wrong.

— Cuts And Scars

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

— Win Butler

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

— Joshua Homme

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

— Bonnie McKee

“But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about…

— David Byrne

I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When…

— Henry Rollins

When I sit down and try to write lyrics first - I've definitely done that in the past - but most of the time,…

— Ty Segall

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's…

— Lizzy Plapinger

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to…

— James Laughlin

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

I hate when I'm singing along to a song and the artist gets the words wrong.

— Anonymous

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as…

— Jonathan Lethem