Bruce Cockburn recently observed in Performing Songwriter that Ani considers it part of her job
description "to try and reflect real life in her songs. The life of
the streets; the life of nations; the lives of people coping with power or its absence, looking for joy through the loneliness and pain and the complexities of
relationship; the life of the spirit. All these are the stuff of human experience, and human experience is what we all share."