Analogy Quote by Hal Sparks

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

— Hal Sparks

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving…

— Alanis Morissette

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

The first few songs of the album 'Little Earthquakes' were unlike anything I'd ever heard.

— Mick Foley

Since I was a kid, I've always felt like songs were saying things to me.

— JP Saxe

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

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

— Peter Hammill

I always was into singer-songwriters like Bright Eyes. When I was in high school I wanted to do a project that was like that.…

— Brian Warren

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

— Ann Reed

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

— Jim Capaldi

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came…

— Dawn Richard