Michelle Shocked Quotes

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

Make your own music. It can be done.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.

Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.