Michelle Shocked Quotes - Page 2

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen it all. And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.