Lyrical Understanding Quotes

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

All I really want is for people to really get what I do and connect with the songs and find meaning in them.

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion?

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the lyrics. I listen to the whole thing and it may be five or six days before I even realize what the song's about.

To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.