Edie Brickell Quotes
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I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.
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I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.
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Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Religion is a light in the fog.
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There's nothing I hate more than nothing.
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I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.
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He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
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There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
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Religion is a smile on a dog.
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
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I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.
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She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
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You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.
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I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.
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I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
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Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
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