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You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my

You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.

Gillian Welch
Song, Mysterious Things, Flavor
"Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Welcome To The Machine". Interview with Jewly Hight, americansongwriter.com. November 04, 2009.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

Gillian Welch
Girl, Morning, Blessed
Song: Dark Turn of Mind, Album: The Harrow & The Harvest

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

Gillian Welch
People, Southern, Able

Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. It’s this very unhurried world. It’s fairly quiet, it’s contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. I’m really proud that our music seems to connect, because it’s not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there.

Gillian Welch
Thinking, Our World, Interesting

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

Gillian Welch
Lessons, Dozen, Might
Song: Only One And Only, Album: Revival

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

Gillian Welch
Hey, Arms, Kind
"Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.

Gillian Welch
Song, Simple, Hiccups

The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.

Gillian Welch
Strong, Voice, People
"Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

Gillian Welch
Writing, Thinking, Voice
"Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

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