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The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Ephemeral
Painting
Sand
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For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
First Time
Going Out
Interviews
Years
Enjoying
Supporting
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The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Goes On
Loss
Records
Relationships
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You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Connections
Heart
Mind
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
House
Phones
Phone
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I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Parent
Successful
Thinking
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I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Instrumental Music
Language
Painting
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Giving
Perfect
Rhyme
Thrill
Writing
Works
Gives
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And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Anxiety
Focus
Voice
Limitations
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I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Allies
Threatened
Alienated
Invaded
Pre-Emptive
Strike
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As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Grief
Loss
Writing
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I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Depth
Feelings
Ideas
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I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Brain
Parent
Want
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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Daughter
Children
Mother
Theatre
Collage
Opened
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I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Book
Important
Thinking
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I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Music
Song
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I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Clothes
Mind
Two
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Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Baby
Distracted
Thinking
Years
Anyway
Happening
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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Phases
Public Life
Records
Ten
Yeah
Years
Phase
Ten Years
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Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Goal
Rivers
Thinking
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The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Exercise
People
Scare
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I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Fun
Song
Writing
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My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Compassion
Judging
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My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Dad
Children
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I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Get Better
Real
Thinking
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There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then there's this "Aha" moment when you see where it's going. That's the most satisfying part of writing.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Might
Needs
Writing
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While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Heart
People
Real
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The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Pain
Singing
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Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Museums
Song
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Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Littles
Thinking
Vision
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I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Book
Childhood
Piano
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On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Running
Divorce
Years
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Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Father
Growing Up
Son
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Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Fall
Rivers
Self
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He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so fragile, he couldn't take the controversy of making a public statement against the war. He knew that people were rabid. They attacked me mercilessly after I did the press conference with Musicians United to Win Without War. He knew that he couldn't tolerate that.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
War
Iraq
Winning
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When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Real
Self
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My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
War
Song
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When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.
Rosanne Cash / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
School
Song
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