Always Quote by Aubrie Sellers

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own…

— Amanda Shires

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it…

— Sharon Van Etten

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

— Martin Gore

For me, lyrics are the most important thing in a song. And if they don't have meaning, I would never sing them - unless…

— Atif Aslam

I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what…

— David W. Marsden

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

— Elliott Smith

It's important to recognize when a song remains important to you.

— Finneas

A song is a meaningful thing.

— Doug Walters

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know…

— Alan Bishop

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But…

— Jarvis Cocker