Always Quote by Jennifer Lopez

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.

— Brendon Urie

I'm attracted to lyricists with a unique, sincere and consistent perspective.

— Matthew Koma

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

— Sarah McLachlan

I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You can't really…

— Dave East

I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing…

— LIZ

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney,…

— Rick Wakeman

Some people are the best lyricists, got the most gas, but they don't know have the personality or the people skills to go out…

— E-40

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

— Ed Sheeran

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical…

— Bonnie Raitt

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken

I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get…

— Burning Spear

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I…

— Bruce Springsteen