Billie Eilish Quotes

In my opinion, lyrics are a paramount factor and will always be.

Lyrics are really important for me.

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is, how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

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

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.