Close Quote by Tobias Forge

Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.

— Daveed Diggs

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really…

— Jonny Lang

We let the lyrics be the focus of the song. Which is not what you hear with some of the zeitgeisty bands, like the…

— Taylor Goldsmith

The lyrics are usually the last take. So after like five times, saying it over and over again, your voice starts to relax and…

— Galcher Lustwerk

Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in…

— Greg Graffin

I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that. I jot…

— Joshua Radin

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current…

— Phil Ochs

With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but…

— Stephen Malkmus

Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.

— Tobias Forge

I always layer my vocals a lot. I sing a minimum of three layers of the same line every time, and then it's always…

— Tobias Forge

The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.

— Cindy Wilson