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I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

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

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

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.

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.