My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn't watch TV. And he didn't want any music playing that wasn't gospel or inspirational music.… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I am more prolific when I have something to respond to. I get my juice from people and real stories and things that seem… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I can see you through any darkness. Your light it leads me on. I'm coming back to your orchard. Coming back to my home. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Coming back to your calling. I can hear your voice say. Coming home for tomorrow from my dreams of yesterday. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Tell me how to. Tell me how not to. Grab on to something new I looked my fate past through. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet,… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
In your eyes I read such strange things but your lips deny they're true. Will your answer really change things? Making me blue. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I have no ancestral link to the mountains. But I really do feel close to mountain culture. Their ways of food, of thinking. The… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places inside of… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Tell the bed not to lay. Like the mouth of a grave. Not to stare up at me. Like a calf on its knees. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
