I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

Michelle Shocked

Categorized in : Knowing Differences Fit

Making music should not be left to the professionals. by Michelle Shocked

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Michelle Shocked

left music should

When I grow up I want to be an old woman. by Michelle Shocked

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

Michelle Shocked

growing-up grows want

Music is too important to be left to professionals. by Michelle Shocked

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

Michelle Shocked

left music-is important

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace. by Michelle Shocked

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

Michelle Shocked

powerful prayer perfect

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Michelle Shocked

inspirational funny mean

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and t... by Michelle Shocked

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Michelle Shocked

changing-my-life accepted life-changing

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 a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Michelle Shocked

grandmother kids school

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use... by Michelle Shocked

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

Michelle Shocked

media social use

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go. by Michelle Shocked

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

Michelle Shocked

long-life secret long

Make your own music. It can be done. by Michelle Shocked

Make your own music. It can be done.

Michelle Shocked

done

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation. by Michelle Shocked

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

Michelle Shocked

passionate two jesus

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Michelle Shocked

painting people thinking

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. N... by Michelle Shocked

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

Michelle Shocked

dark-times dark joy

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tr... by Michelle Shocked

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Michelle Shocked

deals vantage-point records

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's... by Michelle Shocked

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

Michelle Shocked

power-of-music i-believe believe

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource. by Michelle Shocked

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Michelle Shocked

commodity resources music-is

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain. by Michelle Shocked

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Michelle Shocked

pain revenge two

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! by Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Michelle Shocked

folks punk form

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 loves everybody.

Michelle Shocked

loving-person manifest praying

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it... by Michelle Shocked

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

Michelle Shocked

ran philosophical circles