Comfort Quote by John Berryman

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

— PJ Harvey

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because…

— Bert McCracken

When I write the songs, I don't dictate how people should interpret them.

— Billy Squier

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

— Martin Gore

Sometimes music is all we need, when you are happy you enjoy the song, but when you are sad you understand the lyrics behind…

— Chiibe_4

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

— A. A. Gill

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

You only realise the meaning of the words to a song when your upset

— Anonymous

At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be…

— Frank Iero

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you…

— Hillary Scott

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

— Sarah McLachlan

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they…

— Diana Krall