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Religion is a smile on a dog.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
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Religion is a light in the fog.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Fog
Light
Religious
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Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Boxes
Cereal
Philosophy
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She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Egotism
Reflection
Spoons
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Supportive
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There's nothing I hate more than nothing.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Appetizers
Hate
I Hate
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When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Goodbye
Sadness
Saying Goodbye
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Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Choke
Shallow
Water
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Angel
Son
Song
Writing
Plays
Sings
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What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
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I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Space
Filling In
Negative
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Mom
Becoming
Taste
Expressing
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You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Done
Looks
Wish
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Musical
Whole
Me More Like
Wanna
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I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Inability
Problem
Thinking
Big Part
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I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Ifs
Knows
Mean
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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Freedom
Feels
Prisoner
Inside
Jailed
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It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Explanation
Hard To Believe
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Ease
Looks
Wish
Pick
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I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Needs
Persons
Outdoors
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Creative
Love You
Self Love
Love Best Music
Creative Outlet
Outlet
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I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Foundation
People
Scared
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I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Easter
Crazy
Eggs
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There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Fighting
Hate
Night
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He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Eye
Song
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Best
Afternoon
Believe
Glory
Thinking
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Like
Anything
Days
Later
Than
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Aggressive
Enough
Just One
People
Young
Helped
None
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Jamming
Just Something
Realized
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Freshness
Records
Catch
Energy Level
Let Us
Rehearse
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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Letting Go
Mind
Moving
Letting
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And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Goodbye
Solitude
Way
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Care
Honestly
Looks
Realizing
Who Cares
Apart
Beautifully
Cares
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Food
Family Love
Grandchildren
Love Family Good
Dressing
Passed
Recipe
Stuffing
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I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Taken
Cover
However
Pan
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Blessed
Fame
Good Luck
Luck
Turns
Good Music Believe
Dealing
Survive
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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Blessed
Careers
Established
Great Songs
Prior
Tour
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Grandmother
Kitchen
Looks
Eat
Greatest
Best Food World
Hit
Cook
She
Sit
Table
Tornado
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And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Comfortable
Confusing
Disagree
Long Time
Outsiders
Time Long Long Time
Time Enough Long
Time Long Feel
Brought
Front
Nurtured
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A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
Edie Brickell / Singer-Songwriter
Beautiful
Dirty
Green
Heat
Sitting
Song
Texas
Window
Beautiful Woman
Image
Wheel
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