Michelle Shocked Quotes

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.

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.

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that’s created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

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

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.