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

— Max Cavalera

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

— Kim Gordon

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

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

— Aesop Rock

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

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

— Win Butler

Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are…

— M. Shadows

When I first was putting out music, I was like, 'I don't want to be overly sexy or do too much with the imaging…

— Goapele

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

— Tom Paulin

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

People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you…

— Elton John

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