Brandi Carlile

Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired…

— Brandi Carlile

There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're…

— Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

— Brandi Carlile

I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But…

— Brandi Carlile

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the…

— Brandi Carlile

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

— Brandi Carlile

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

— Brandi Carlile

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be…

— Brandi Carlile

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

— Brandi Carlile

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton…

— Brandi Carlile

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

— Brandi Carlile

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life…

— Brandi Carlile

When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my…

— Brandi Carlile

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house…

— Brandi Carlile

It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as…

— Brandi Carlile

I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you

— Brandi Carlile

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

— Brandi Carlile

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked…

— Brandi Carlile

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

— Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

— Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

— Brandi Carlile

The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.

— Brandi Carlile

I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got…

— Brandi Carlile

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write…

— Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in,…

— Brandi Carlile