I listen to alot of different music when I write and it offers alot of inspiration. A big thing to me is also whether or not the lyrics have any depth or meaning. Its usually smallest lines that can sum up the weight of the world.

So tell of any particular lines from a song that inspire you or name somebody. It can be anyone at all. Though just instrumental music wouldn't make much of a good example.

Conor Oberst would be mine because his lyrics deliver straight visions of self examination, politics, philosophical ideas, and Dylan-esque story telling.
A verse from one of his songs,
"Here's a scale, weigh it out, and you'll find easily more than sufficient doubt, that these colors you see were picked in advance by some careful hand, with an absolute concept of beauty. They are smeared and these blurs come in random order, and they'll color the eyes of your former lovers, hers were green like July, except when she cried, they were red.
Now I know a disease that these doctors can't treat, you contract on the day, you accept all you see is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be, a reflection of something we're missing. And language just happened, it was never planned, and it's inadequate to describe where I am, in the room of my house where the light's never been, waiting for this day to end."