Emotive Lyrics Quotes

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.

What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.