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.

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

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

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.