Nikki Sixx Quotes

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

I've worked really, really hard on my lyricism.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

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

It's very easy to think about rhymes and just usage of words that sound good but don't mean anything. Basically, I try to put into song the way people actually talk.

The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.