"It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me."
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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."
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"I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do."
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"I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience."
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"Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians."
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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."
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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."
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"Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it."
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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."
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"I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally."
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"I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing."
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"Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him."
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""Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter."
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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."
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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."
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"We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such."
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