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Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.

Brandi Carlile

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
BRANDI CARLILE

Sane Self Sometimes
So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it’s the only problem but there’s got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.
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Artist Block Stress
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I’m feeling just a little “extra important.”
BRANDI CARLILE

Animal Daughter Fishing
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can’t be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they’re gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
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Gay Issues Life Love
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I’m feeling verbally communal with other people. It’s out there and I feel so much better about it.
BRANDI CARLILE

Communal Feelings Happen People Writing
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I’ve been doing that for a long time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Cities Fishing Lakes
Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too.
BRANDI CARLILE

Bears Burden Pockets
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Advice Artist Vintage
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
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Oppression Problem Time
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
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Feels Sing Voice
You can’t change people, but most importantly, unless you’re their momma, you don’t even know what’s best for them.
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Change Momma People
I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole ‘Super Bowl’ generalization of our world – You’re on this side, I’m on that side; you’re a Republican, I’m a Democrat; you’re country music, I’m rock music.
BRANDI CARLILE

Country Issues Our World
I’m not sure I’ll ever be famous by anyone’s definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life’s work.
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Audience Definitions Sure
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 in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.
BRANDI CARLILE

Fuel Opportunity World

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