Happy Birthday Rosanne Cash!

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

Das hat mich nicht wirklich gewundert. Mein Vater hatte da ein bemerkenswertes Gedächtnis. Er muss tausende Songs auswendig gekannt haben.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Mein Vater stellte fest, dass ich einen Song nicht kannte, der ihm wichtig war und er sagte: „Ich werde dir ein paar Songs aufschreiben“ und er verbrachte den Rest des Nachmittags damit, diese Liste zu erstellen. Oben drüber schrieb er „100 essentielle Country Songs“. Er gab sie mir und sagte: „Lerne sie. Das ist deine Ausbildung.“

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Wir Amerikaner haben unsere Erfahrungen vor allem in Liedern dokumentiert. Es gibt Songs aus dem Bürgerkrieg und dem Revolutionskrieg, über die beiden Weltkriege, die Zeiten der Depression und über Naturkatastrophen. Aus den Appalachen gibt es viele Lieder, die in der keltischen Musik ihre Wurzeln haben und aus dem Delta Blues, Gospel und Folk hat sich letztlich   die moderner Country-Musik entwickelt. Das ist wirklich der Kern der amerikanischen Musik. Diese Lieder sind wir.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

In den 60ern haben wir in der Schule Songs, wie „500 Miles“ oder „This Land is your Land“ gelernt. Das macht man heute nicht mehr, das ist beunruhigend und spricht nicht für unser Bildungssystem.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Every person's every action has an effect.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I love mixing up my genres.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.