I spent all of my twenties feeling very angsty about trying to make a difference. I wanted to establish a touring circuit that would revolutionize the way subculture music was received in China. But now I'm older, and I don't… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel,… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
