Confront Quote by Jeff Tweedy

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone…

— Kate Bush

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some…

— Nate Ruess

Sometimes my lyrics are about things that are, well, not the brightest, but I have been working with this outlook for such a long…

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

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

— Max Tundra

“Each person whoever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own…

— Neil Gaiman

When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to my personality…

— Kim Shattuck

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions,

— Kurt Cobain

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a…

— Hiromi Uehara

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

— Yasmine Hamdan

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express…

— Annie Lennox

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

— David Gilmour

“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what…

— Charles Simic