Far Quote by Raheem DeVaughn

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

— Raheem DeVaughn

The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other…

— Dean Wareham

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because…

— Bert McCracken

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

— Dave Gahan

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the…

— M. Ward

I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough…

— Scott Walker

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

— Barry Mann

This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.

— SonReal

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

— Mandy Patinkin

Every song becomes an emotional journey for me, and only then will the soul of the song remain honest.

— Anirudh Ravichander

Sometimes I like to write the lyrics while I'm on the road, because then you get even more melancholy.

— MO