Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems. Rosanne Cash More Quotes by Rosanne Cash More Quotes From Rosanne Cash When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy. Rosanne Cash dad song school But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting. Rosanne Cash perfect writing giving Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it. Rosanne Cash painting different trying I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens. Rosanne Cash get-better real thinking I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience. Rosanne Cash life-experience add thinking As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable. Rosanne Cash grief loss writing I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally. Rosanne Cash impulsive i-have-learned loneliness And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it. Rosanne Cash anxiety voice focus No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home. Rosanne Cash daughter mother children I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians. Rosanne Cash musician daughter mother I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis. Rosanne Cash reading suicide people I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats. Rosanne Cash music dream song I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children. Rosanne Cash profound children art I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds. Rosanne Cash clothes mind two Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life. Rosanne Cash phases records years It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me. Rosanne Cash want people thinking I don't do comparisons because I always lose. Rosanne Cash comparison loses When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming. Rosanne Cash dad stills song Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him. Rosanne Cash dad use people I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars Rosanne Cash acoustics guitar three
