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I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.
It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.
On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
I've been so private. That's part of the reason they've said, 'Is Romeo gay?' No. I just don't want to show you my girl - if I got a girl.
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.
Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.
I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.
I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.
Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.
I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.
I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.
I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.
I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.
Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'!
There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with.
Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.
I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
I'll toss my coins in the fountain, Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my fingers and dream on.
I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were very accepting of people of all faiths.
You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
Playing yidaki, for me, is a meditation. It's incredibly deep breathing, but also, it's a structured process where you're circulating air.
I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.
Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.
Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.
We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.
I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.