“The consumers of music are definitely less lyric-literate these days,” he says. ”We live in a cut-up, fast-paced world now. But I still think songwriters are as interested in lyrics as they ever were.
”The lyric is a weapon and as a songwriter you have a few of them: the melody, the sound, the voice. But every songwriter knows if you have a good lyric, it’s an advantage.”
Posted on Thursday, 20 May 2010
