Ground Quote by Lou Barlow

Most of my songs aren't about me. They're about stuff I've seen.

— Dionne Bromfield

My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

— Eminem

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

— Tod Machover

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen…

— Ezra Furman

That's something as an artist, when you're young, you don't necessarily think of. You're just doing music and whatever feels right to you whether…

— B-Real

Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to…

— Hank Williams III

A lot of my songs are about being a teenager with a tornado in your head.

— MO

My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of…

— Washed Out

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

— Bo Burnham

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's the end…

— Avril Lavigne

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

— Andrew Bird