Lyrical Ambiguity Quotes

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

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

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really you were just trying to find a word to rhyme with another word.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.

I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.

I used to get these reviews in American newspapers saying that they didn't understand what my lyrics were about. I saw that as a compliment. That's exactly what English songwriters should be doing!

I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.