Shawn Colvin Quotes

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?

The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

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.

Without music, I could not get through.

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.

Oh you kissed the soul of a rebel
In a Yankee girl
You got to me
I heard you callin' 'round the world
From your back roads
Tennessee

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.

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.

Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world

I have lost too much sleep, but I'm gonna find it.