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

Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.
BRANDI CARLILE

Complacency Privilege Sometimes
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
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I’ve been and how I got to where I am.
BRANDI CARLILE

Across Lines Stories
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
BRANDI CARLILE

Coffee Fishing Needs
I’d love to claim the title of ‘songwriter’ or ‘intellectual,’ but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.
BRANDI CARLILE

Intellectual Titles Truth
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Oppression Problem Time
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Audience Definitions Sure
My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
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Country Father Mother
Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.
BRANDI CARLILE

Sane Self Sometimes
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we’re born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
BRANDI CARLILE

Complacency Country Soul
If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you’re talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.
BRANDI CARLILE

Guitar Song Writing
There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.
BRANDI CARLILE

Creator Purpose Redeemer
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.
BRANDI CARLILE

Gay Issues Life Love
In life, I’m most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.
BRANDI CARLILE

People Powerful Thinking
Wherever is your heart I call home.
BRANDI CARLILE

Call Heart Home
I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people’s songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.
BRANDI CARLILE

Believe Creativity Song

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