I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.
As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.
Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.