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" I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground. "

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" I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again. "

Lizz Wright

My Life

Getting Older

Thought

" Life is good. It might not go the way we plan it, but that's fine. We just do what we can. "

" Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience. "

Lizz Wright

Gardening

Helps

" I love singing all types of genres. "

" I'm so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life. "

" I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on the material. I'm curious to learn from the music. "

Lizz Wright

Music

Curious

" Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done. "

" Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus. "

" There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener. "

" The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me. "

" Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul. "

" Everyone I perform and tour with looks out for each other; we ensure we stay healthy. "

" The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience of communion. "

" As I grow older, I hope I can fully embody my grandmother's remarkable peace. "

" I'm a preacher's kid, I'm big-boned, I have giant feet, and I've always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, 'I can't fail. I'm invincible. I'm made of green juice and concrete; nothing's gonna happen to me.' "

" Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding something greater that connects all of us. Gospel music is about tapping into that. "

" I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story. "

" I'd been trained in choral, gospel, and a little bit of opera. "

" There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't know any better - have been saying things to me like, 'You should really think about neosoul. You'd definitely be more successful in that.' But that's not my expression. "

" As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently. "

" A lot of people in the African-American community are raised by grandmothers, and that relationship is a special bond and circle. "

" I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life. "

" I know how to make myself comfortable. "

" Salif Keita's one of my favorite artists. "

Lizz Wright

Favorite

Artists

" Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it. "

" I really just want an audience that is willing to let me live my life and share with them what I get out of my life. "

" For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel it's still sacred, like gospel. It's serious music, but it allows room to sing about so much other stuff as well. "

Lizz Wright

Spiritual

Serious

" I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and song that I perform. "

" I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music. "

" The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places inside of themselves and giving them an opportunity to sit deep in their own feelings, and to be together and deeply alone at the same time, and to process things. "