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" I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death. "

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

" I think of myself as an interpretative singer and a songwriter. "

" I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end of a long day, and he just won't give up. I just love his wearied devotion - that beautiful, beautiful, weathered sound. "

" At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play at church. "

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

" I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity that would make you wonder why it was written, and make you think about the writer. I think every writer hopes an Ella of any genre or anytime gets a hold of their work and works the song like that. "

" 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. "

" If we work on it, we can absolutely refuse any notion that suggests that after generations of contributing to this country, being a part of the bones and the marrow, that I'm supposed to be uncomfortable here. "

" By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids. "

" We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet, meditative house. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whoever is playing with me, they participate in the arrangement; I learned from Craig Street to really pool the stories and the skill and the voices of everybody around you on the bandstand to build an arrangement in the moment. "

" I am more prolific when I have something to respond to. I get my juice from people and real stories and things that seem common but are amazing. "

" I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The way they hang out with no recording devices and just sing songs with each other. "

" I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but as business people. A lot of us are investing and trying to use social media. It is such an interesting level of responsibility and engagement on all these levels. I don't know how one can do this without absolute commitment and faith. "

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

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

" I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet. "

" 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. "

" It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express. "

" I want to record, tour, and just live life. "

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

" Where I fit genre-wise, it's hard to tell. It's a fickle wind. But I have to believe there's always going to be a place for the songs inside of me. "

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

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

" I'd listen to the radio, especially when my parents were out on house calls to pray for people - you know, shut-ins. Sometimes, if we were incredibly sneaky, we could do it at night when everyone was asleep. "

" I always want to do good work and enjoy doing it. "

" 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. "