Character Quote by Scott Ian

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

I've had a bit of a crazy life. So writing lyrics in songs is easy for me.

— Tricky

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is…

— Henry Rollins

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're…

— Sarah McLachlan

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

— Johnny Mercer

In my earlier days of writing for myself, I wanted songs to be more complex. I thought they had to be for me to…

— Lady Gaga

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

— King Krule

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do…

— Nikki Sixx

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

— Yasmine Hamdan

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

— Junaid Jamshed

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

— Ann Reed

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the…

— Maurice Gibb