Before Quote by Matisyahu

I actually finally let the Light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light…

— Katy Perry

I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it…

— Ellie Goulding

“We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.”

— Sarah J. Maas

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

— Perfume Genius

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

First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough…

— Udo Dirkschneider

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing…

— Stephen Sondheim

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us…

— Kevin Jonas

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi…

— Paul Rodgers

I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote…

— Erich Bergen

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

— P. J. Soles