I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

- Abbie Cornish

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

- Brody Armstrong

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

- Alanis Morissette

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

- Adam Rich

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.

- Brendon Urie

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

- Brian Eno

I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me.

- Alice Oswald

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

- Anne Stevenson

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

- Adam Jones

I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.

- Alex Turner

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

- Barry Mann

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

- Bill Callahan

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

- A. R. Rahman

With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.

- Adam Schlesinger

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

- Alanis Morissette

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

- Brian Eno

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

- Courtney Love

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

- Alison Goldfrapp

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

- Brian Eno

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

- Billy Sherwood