Musician Quotes

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

I don't usually read reviews.

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.