Behinds Quote by Taylor Momsen

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

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

— Julie Andrews

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

— Matt Berninger

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

— David Gilmour

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's…

— Dexter Gordon

With lyrics, I go into a place where I try to hear what the song is about. I have to learn. The music tells…

— Lacey Sturm

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

— James Taylor

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

— Yasmine Hamdan

I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

— Colleen Saidman

I used to personally dread writing lyrics. Because I never really understood how to do it. And for some reason, in this band I'm…

— Leisha Hailey

I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

— Fetty Wap

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