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I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time.

Brandi Carlile

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time.
BRANDI CARLILE

Records Sitting Song
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
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
There’s a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend – we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It’s a little bit dangerous, because you’ll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.
BRANDI CARLILE

Believe Vintage Writing
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.”
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Animal Daughter Fishing
But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I’ve learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.
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Sound Two Years
Wherever is your heart I call home.
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Call Heart Home
The purpose of it all is love.
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Love People Purpose
I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.
BRANDI CARLILE

Feels Sing Voice
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
I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.
BRANDI CARLILE

Air Sleep Wine
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
The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.
BRANDI CARLILE

Mind Thinking Vegas
Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I’ve played so many shows in Colorado that I think I’m the Colorado house band.
BRANDI CARLILE

House Oasis Thinking
Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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Coffee Fishing Needs
My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
BRANDI CARLILE

Country Father Mother

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time.

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