Liz Phair Quotes

Songwriters tell the truth.

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

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

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

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.

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.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

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.

Lyricists play with words.

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.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

It's great when you can write a meaningful song that touches people, but sometimes you just wanna have fun and sing a silly song that doesn't reflect on you as a person.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

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

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.