I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My skills are musical, not lyrical.
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.
I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.