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It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

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

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

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.

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 know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.