Oh you kissed the soul of a rebel In a Yankee girl You got…

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