Able Quote by John Legend

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

— Ray LaMontagne

That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context…

— Paolo Nutini

It's hard for me to always explain my songs, and people always expect a meaning and to know what it's about. Sometimes when I…

— Amy Macdonald

I get to express myself in my songs more than I can ever do in real life or in talking to somebody. I get…

— Max Cavalera

Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.

— Paul Rodgers

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

— Yael Naim

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

— Laura Marling

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

— Sarah Barthel

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

Sometimes when you listen to the lyrics of a song it feels like they were written just for you.

— James Merrow

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would…

— Lucy Dacus