Lizz Wright Quotes

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Lyricists play with words.