Art Quote by Katie Melua

When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it.…

— Butch Walker

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open…

— Bob Dylan

I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of songs that have a real…

— Marina and the Diamonds

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be…

— Naima Adedapo

Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our songs.

— Shavo Odadjian

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

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more…

— Kathleen Hanna

I want people to feel and relate to my songs in their own ways.

— Griff

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you…

— Weyes Blood

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

— Natasha Bedingfield

That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.

— Dave Keuning

I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.

— Dan Mangan