Quotes About Expression

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all the time.

I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.

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

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

I've always loved lyrics, so I used to listen to Sara Bareilles - more folky, singer-songwritery people.

I only like songs with strong lyrics.

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything has to mean something to me.

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.

Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a few times. Like 'Dance Wiv Me' - those lyrics didn't start on that beat.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it, am empowered by it, and have a deep connection to the lyrics.

Probably as young as 10 I would take songs and just change the lyrics.

So what comes naturally to me is writing lyrics and writing songs and telling stories.

I'm in a generation where MAC is the reigning brand for a lot of women - black, white, and other.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

I'm not a machine.

The Auto-Tune makes everybody sound the same and takes away all of the emotion because you're singing through this machine, and of course your taking all of this emotion out of your voice for the most part.

I'm not a hit machine.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.