I have lost too much sleep, but I'm gonna find it.

With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If…

— Shawn Colvin

It's really fun to listen to other people and be an accompanist.

— Shawn Colvin

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

— Shawn Colvin

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of…

— Shawn Colvin

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

— Shawn Colvin

You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?

— Shawn Colvin

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal,…

— Shawn Colvin

I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and…

— Shawn Colvin

I don't support Trump. We'll put that right out there.

— Shawn Colvin

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

— Shawn Colvin

This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.

— Shawn Colvin

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between…

— Shawn Colvin

The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

— Shawn Colvin

I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

— Shawn Colvin

I've had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.

— Shawn Colvin