I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it,… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share
