Always Quote by Tituss Burgess

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

— Craig Finn

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the…

— Ludovico Einaudi

“My prose can be dense. I love to pile on detail. I love to describe. I’m much more reluctant to give the reader entrance…

— Anthony Doerr

I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it has to…

— Joss Stone

When the lyrics to a song relate so much to you, you feel like that person wrote it for your soul.

— Evangeline Willis

The music that we listen to these days, everything is right there in your face. There's no real mystery. It's not poetic. I want…

— Ro James

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

— Benee

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It…

— Alison Krauss

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has…

— Craig David

When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me…

— Brendon Urie

I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions…

— Boots Riley

I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of songwriting, songs…

— Mirah