In one of my scenes, a character is listening to the radio, and although I have the song she is listening to in my head, I am not sure if it's ok to name the song or artist without repercussions from doing so when I do attempt to publish.

 Does anyone have experience with this? I have been researching, and can't find anything. I could use some help. Thanks.

... Um, in that case I may have a problem. I know I'm not the first to do this, though - kinda got the idea from Ann Brashares - so does anyone know the procedure if you do want to use song lyrics in your story? See, I title each chapter using a song (with credit given in the chapter list at the beginning) and then at the beggining of each chapter I've got a line or two from said song, to kind of introduce / sum up the mood of the chapter.

 For example, my table of contents looks like this:

Ch. 1: "Hello" (Evanescence) (page 9)

Ch. 2: "Dare You to Move" (Switchfoot) (page 16)

Then, when you go to page 9 you'll find this:

chapter one

"If I smile and don't believe... soon I know I'll wake from this dream...."

 Wednesday afternoon in the midst of what seems a never-ending break and visit home.... etc, etc.

It's very important to me that I keep in these songs, if I can, and I know that there are lots of books out there that open each chapter or section or whatever with quotes, song lyrics, etc. So does anyone know how that all works?