Edges Quote by Ian MacKaye

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

— Rostam Batmanglij

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

— Stephen Malkmus

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people…

— Zooey Deschanel

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express…

— Annie Lennox

I don't get mad with people, like, 'Oh, but that's not what the song was about...' It's also nice to know that people are…

— Beth Ditto

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most…

— Davey Havok

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going…

— Vince Gill

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music,

— Tom Odell

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of…

— Andy Grammer

It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they…

— David Nail

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

— Jared Leto