A biography for Shawn Colvinhasn’t been written yet.
“I made a promise to myself to write songs I liked. I'm an acoustic singer/songwriter, and I need to be able play every song by myself on guitar. No matter what the production ends up being on the record, I've got to be able to go out and sell it all on my own. It's about connection.”
“I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.”
“I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.”
“I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.”
“I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.”
“I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.”
“When I made 'A Few Small Repairs' and it did well, I followed that up with having a baby, and that was not received well at my record company. I was written off, and that had a bearing on my career.”
“For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.”
“My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.”
“One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.”
“When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.”