Experience Quote by Lola Young

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

— Ray LaMontagne

I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it…

— Gil Scott-Heron

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

— Kate Bush

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

— Greg Saunier

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

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now,…

— Billie Eilish

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

— Ed Sheeran

Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about.

— Bill Ward

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

— Victoria Justice

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

— Van Morrison

I don't think of my music as being about something.

— Paul Lansky

Most of the songs that I write have nothing to do with the stuff that I used to sing about since I didn't write…

— Tevin Campbell