What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about? — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 has a… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
"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 Image
If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
