Clue Quote by Neko Case

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

— Jim James

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

— Van Morrison

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

— Brad Paisley

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White

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

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

I do know what my songs are about.

— Bob Dylan

I don't really like to explain my songs.

— Yanni

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

— Lykke Li

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and…

— Mark Kozelek

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

— Lars Ulrich

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

— Courtney Love