Allowing Quote by Jeff Tweedy

So much of your life is wrapped up in the songs. All the twists come back, and you go back to that place when…

— John Waite

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25…

— Geddy Lee

The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the lyrics. I…

— Elizabeth Fraser

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the…

— Brian McKnight

There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very clear pictures,…

— Justin Vernon

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common…

— Tim Finn

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

— Yukimi Nagano

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

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

— Max Tundra

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

— Gene Watson

Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's…

— Dave Matthews

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

— James Merrow