I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know. — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again. — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
