Busy Quote by Lou Barlow

I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little…

— Kathleen Edwards

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

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just…

— Leonard Cohen

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music.…

— Liz Phair

I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're…

— Santigold

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

— Lauren Mayberry

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 I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to…

— Carrie Brownstein

A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the…

— St. Lucia

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

— Greil Marcus