Robert Coppola Schwartzman Quotes

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

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.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

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.

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

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 really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

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.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

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