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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.
Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.
If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.
Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.
When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.
There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"
When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.
I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.
I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.
Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?
I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.
Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.
I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.
I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.
I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.
I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.
As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.