Quotes by Rosanne Cash

• 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.
• And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.
• And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.
• 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.
• For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.
• I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
• I love mixing up my genres.
• I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
• 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.
• 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.
• I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
• No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.
• Every person's every action has an effect.
• I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
• When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
• War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
• 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.
• 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.
• My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
• It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
• It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
• 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.
• If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.
• 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 was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.
• The key to change... is to let go of fear.
• 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.