Quotes from Rosanne Cash

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

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.

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.

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

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

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.

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.

I love mixing up my genres.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

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

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.

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

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

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Work ... is redemption.