There are so many great singers out there.
I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.
I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You can't really be a lyricist if you didn't write your lyrics. There's no passion, there's nothing in it coming from you. It's somebody else's feelings and you just taking it and running with it.
I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.
I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.
You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.
Eminem is a master.
I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.
I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
It's very challenging to be a playback singer in Bollywood.
I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.
When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.
I became a melodic writer after 'Gunn.'
I was kind of a sideman. Then I became kind of a singer-songwriter.
Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
I have no desire to write lyrics with Adrenaline Mob.
I always enjoyed singing and working with the late Kishore Kumar. He was a legendary playback singer, an actor, and a producer/director.
I was playing with Chuck Berry, who sounded like an English teacher. Did you ever listen to his records? He pronounces every word.
Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.
Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.
My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.
Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!
I don't think of myself as a singer really.
I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.
