Boris Yoffe's attitude to verbal language is distrustful, even hostile: language, from his point of view, is the most powerful model of the world/reality, which governs perception and distorts immediate experience. On the other hand, he has always been an avid reader of philosophical, literary, and especially poetic texts, and is himself the author of numerous essays.

His songs are all spontaneous, some thanks to a momentary inspiration by a text, others as a kind of mockery, joke, absurd game, even polemic with language.