Authority Quote by John Mellencamp

The first time I wrote a song, I couldn't really believe - 'Can you just do that? You're just allowed?' I never thought about…

— LP

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art…

— David Berman

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing.…

— Anonymous

It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I write this…

— Tim Minchin

With the 'Silly Boy' track, I mean, people knew about it, but it wasn't really like, 'oh that's Eva Simons.' But when 'Take Over…

— Eva Simons

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

— James Murphy

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

— Emma Anderson

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's…

— Melanie Martinez

Fans make you understand it was more than music to them. It was a movement, a voice they felt they didn't have that we…

— Pepa

Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but…

— Mark McGrath

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the…

— Greg Ginn

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song.…

— Vera Lynn