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When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.
A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.
I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.
The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.
I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.
I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
I hope our fans will be able to make great memories with us through the music and performances we show on stage.
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.
I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.
I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party, and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.
I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.
Whenever I've collaborated with anyone in the past it's just happened really, I've never actively sought it out.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.
I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"
I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.
Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.
I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD
Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don't be looking at all the other things. Start with you.
The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.
I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say. I like that in concert. That's neat.
I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.
Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.
Sooner or later we'll be looking back on everything and we'll laugh about it like we knew what all was happening
A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.
I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.
Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.
I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
Slowly but surely, people don't see 'Popstars: The Rivals,' they see Girls Aloud. We're a band in our own right.
I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.
My son is all into construction vehicles like most boys are, so he's enthralled with dump trucks and bulldozers.
I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.