I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?
I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.
I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sw...
Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.
My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
