CeeLo Green Quotes

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I can make rhymes. My style of writing is kind of childlike anyway.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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.

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

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.