Alex Quote by Sammy Hagar

I used to just send the music to my friends and I wouldn't put a name on it, and then they would label it…

— Alex G

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really…

— Hal Sparks

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

— Arthur Rimbaud

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The…

— Bonnie McKee

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

— Layne Staley

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'

— Gwen Stefani

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

— J. Tillman

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

— Brian Eno

I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War,…

— Bucky Pope

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

— Rick Wright

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

— Jim Sturgess