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It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.