Quotes from Nanci Griffith

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

And maybe you were thinking that you thought you knew me well But no one ever knows the heart of anyone else I feel like Garbo in this Late Night Grande Hotel 'Cos living alone is all I've ever done well

No one ever knows the heart of anyone else