Catching Quote by Greil Marcus

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

— King Krule

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

Sometimes it feels like the lyrics to a song you're listening to, were written just for you

— Melchor Lim

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

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

— St. Lucia

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

— Yasmine Hamdan

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song…

— Nikki Sixx

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

— Alex Kapranos

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

— Christine and the Queens

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great…

— Ezra Furman

Sometimes when you listen to the lyrics of a song it feels like they were written just for you.

— James Merrow