- Dismal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to think I've overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever going to write my own songs or have children.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If I can, then it's a song I ought to record. If I can't, it's probably not good enough.
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that's painful.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.
- Became
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.
- Bottom
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.
- Folk
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.
- Put
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't support Trump. We'll put that right out there.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.
- Concert
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020