Dinah Jane Quotes
Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I love writing songs.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
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I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
