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Work ... is redemption.
I love mixing up my genres.
Southern gentility is evocative to me.
The key to change is to let go of fear.
The key to change... is to let go of fear.
Every person's every action has an effect.
I don't do comparisons because I always lose.
Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.
It was never too late to undo who you had become.
If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end
If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.
If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.
Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.
I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.
I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.
Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.
Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.
More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.
I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.
I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.
I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.
I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.
Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.
If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.
I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.