Alive Quote by Tori Amos

Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into…

— Regina Spektor

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen…

— John Petrucci

Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but…

— Jack Tatum

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very…

— Alanis Morissette

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems…

— Oskar Kokoschka

I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just…

— Taraka Larson

A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.

— Dolores O'Riordan

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

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

— Layne Staley

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the…

— Will Oldham

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

— Roberta Flack

If I completely understood what was going on and I understood these songs, they wouldn't make sense to play live anymore. They're still enigmatic…

— Justin Vernon