Believe Quote by Dave Gahan

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

— David Crabb

I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs…

— Tom Odell

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone…

— Katie Melua

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

— Lars Ulrich

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

— Sarah McLachlan

Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.

— Jens Lekman

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make…

— Sune Rose Wagner

Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with…

— Conor Oberst

“The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.”

— Neil Gaiman

I can tell what inspired the songs for me, or what I was thinking and feeling at the time. But I don't want that…

— Nicholas Thorburn

I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very…

— Alanis Morissette