"I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did."
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"There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over and over again, or heard about. People would ask me about it, but they kind of knew the answer. It would be this ongoing question: "Your fans are wondering, now that you're married, are you still going to be able to write songs?" I'm serious! I would get asked that!"
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"What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."
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"It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever."
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"People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me."
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"I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it."
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"I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world."
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"Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in."
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"There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out."
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"I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do."
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"Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad."
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"The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me."
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"Any time there's a major change, whether it's going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city, a death - that usually provides a catalyst for an explosion of creativity."
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"I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing."
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"I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out."
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"Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do."
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"I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles."
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"You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write."
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"I'm trying to get out of my own way"
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"Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on."
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