Positive Lyrics Quotes

Don’t listen to music that is degrading.

Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.

We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.

We need more pop songs and more empowering songs.

In my songs there are no bad words, so kids can sing them, and girls can identify with singing with them, too, because it's not like a man singing reggaeton.

My album is called 'Zero to Infinity' and none of my songs are going to have cheap, dirty lyrics. Every song, in a way, is a women empowerment song. Every song, even if it's a dance track, you'll be dancing on it, but it's the right thing.

I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

What I love about 'Culpables' is that it's a completely clean song. We do not speak ill of women or men. The song is clean. It does not have bad words.

I don't really connect with super-sad, somber songs.

You can't under-estimate the power of uplifting melody and words.

One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.

I always tell people that it's so much harder to make a happy song than a sad one.

'Doin' Fine' is a really special song because it's uplifting but really honest at the same time.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.

I made records purely for fun - songs that made you feel good. I left the message songs to people like John Lennon.

It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!

If you take the duality of things - like sunny-sounding music with weird lyrics on it - it makes this dichotomy. I've never had that because when I make music, I make major chords, happy-sounding stuff, and my lyrics are positive.

A lot of my philosophies came from sheet music. 'Some Day My Prince Will Come,' or 'Blue Skies Smiling at Me' - they were very uplifting, wholesome lyrics, and I really believed those words when I sang them.