Down and Quote by Layne Staley

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you.…

— Norah Jones

The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me,…

— Paolo Nutini

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life…

— Nicolas Godin

“The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.”

— Neil Gaiman

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that…

— Matthew Healy

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

— Lars Ulrich

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

— Butch Trucks

I do know what my songs are about.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Yael Naim

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it…

— Sharon Van Etten