Explaining Quote by Reeve Carney

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

— Ray LaMontagne

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because…

— Bert McCracken

I don't really like to explain my songs.

— Yanni

When I write the songs, I don't dictate how people should interpret them.

— Billy Squier

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

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is…

— M. Ward

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

— Martin Gore

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

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

— PJ Harvey

I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people…

— Zooey Deschanel

I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs…

— Tom Odell

Maybe it's just me being lazy but I just don't like describing my music or style or anything, I just like letting people interpret…

— BØRNS