It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal. — 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, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share
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
