Billy Corgan Quotes

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

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'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

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

Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which I've done on occasion.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

I love clever lyrics.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

I write songs about what I go through.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-climber.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.