Interviews Quote by Travis Morrison

Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD.

— Young Thug

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to…

— Wes Borland

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

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In…

— Matt Berninger

I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

— Thom Yorke

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he…

— Ice T

I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told me that…

— Kim Nam-joon

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not…

— Stephen Sondheim

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and…

— Craig Finn

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

— Mary Timony

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

— David Gilmour

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is…

— Matt Berninger