Zitat des Tages von Tift Merritt:
In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.
My work is has always been very, very personal.
I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.
I really love music, and I definitely love playing music and getting to be a part of music.
I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.
France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.
As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.
