The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.
Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.
My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd, and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music.
I wish I wrote 'Don't Speak' by No Doubt. I mean, that is a classic heartbreak song; it gets me every time.
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.
The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.
Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.
My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme
Don't it make my brown eyes blue?
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.
If people want to write long, rambling, pathetic articles about how sad they are about song titles, have a blast! I'll be out playing music to a room full of people, having a great time.
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
I actually do sing sometimes.
I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.
There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.
Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That's pretty intense.
Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
