Aspect Quote by Alanis Morissette

When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The reality is…

— Martha Wainwright

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

— Sarah McLachlan

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song…

— Sufjan Stevens

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of…

— Kenny G

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life…

— Nicolas Godin

I always think it's more interesting to leave the context of those songs a little vague. Like, all these songs come from me, and…

— Alex G

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

— Annie E. Clark

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

— Big Boi

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

— Neil Diamond

It is so important that our lives are built not on our feelings or circumstances, but on the word of God, and songs can…

— Stuart Townend

I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that…

— Tori Amos

I found that people really were reaching out to someone to spill their guts to so I did the same thing lyrically in the…

— Hayley Williams