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A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Well-written words are music.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

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

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.