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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

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.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

The key to change... is to let go of fear,

We talk about your drinking
But not about your thirst
You set off through the minefield
Like you were rounding first

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

"Country" has become a marketing term, but I see myself as a songwriter.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

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.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

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.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

It was never too late to undo who you had become.

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.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

Work ... is redemption.

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.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

I love mixing up my genres.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

Every person's every action has an effect.