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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Long
Memories
Way
Round
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Fun
Records
Tons
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I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Causes
Feels
Written
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Don't Give Up
Giving Up
Guitar
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Honestly
My Own
So Much Time
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Havens
People
Anybody Else
Crawl
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Fulfilling
Fun
Real
Writing
Me Fun Real
Overall
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Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Dwelling
People
Writing
Time People Why
Emotions
Ended
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Christian
Honest
Religious
Thinking
Life Myself My Life
Life Myself Live
Describe
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Corporations
Digging
Trying
Corporation
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We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Fighting
Minimum Wage
Pay
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Bob
Carter
Cash
Dylan
Haggard
Bob Dylan
Johnny
Influenced
Lynn
Mainly
Rodgers
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Suffering
Want
Worthwhile
Began
Suffer
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Attention
Song
Writing
World Me Never
Just Kind
Paying
Result
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Long
Long Time
People
Trying
Time Music Long
Worker
Help People
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Honest
Making Money
Radio
Today
Developed
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Feelings
Imagine
Intense
People
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Fighting
Guy
Sin
Standing
Believes
Refuses
Standing Up
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
Iris Dement / Singer-Songwriter
Long
Mean
Way
Time Work Music
Bothers
Work Time Music
Provided
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