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I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything…

— Snoh Aalegra

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is…

— Matt Berninger

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

— King Tuff

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound of a…

— Mike Patton

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

— Jillian Hervey

I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.

— Max Cavalera

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

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

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

— Win Butler