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“One thing I liked about 'Silver Bell' is that I barely knew how to play in the tuning I was writing in, and I just went for it anyway.”
“I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.”
“I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.”
“There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.”
“You have this life in this body, and it's really fragile. But what you have inside is what you have to offer, and it's just as important as anyone else's.”
“I have been told that I have been played at - my music's been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. Weddings, I find very surprising.”
“From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.”
“I love Texas itself. The landscape is remarkable. The combination of cultures here is incredible. And the history here is pretty remarkable, too, going back centuries.”