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. Matt Berninger Read Quote
I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished. Matt Berninger Read Quote
When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good. Matt Berninger Read Quote
At first, when ‘Boxer’ came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. ‘Boxer’ bought us our creative freedom. Matt Berninger Read Quote
Alligator’ was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was the screamy songs that got us that attention. Matt Berninger Read Quote
Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead. Matt Berninger Read Quote
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn’t a literal explanation. They’re not riddles for the listener to solve. Matt Berninger Read Quote
