If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.
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.
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.
I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
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.
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.