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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

Dar Williams

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
DAR WILLIAMS

Life Romance Therapy
A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
DAR WILLIAMS

Artist Different Song
What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times.
DAR WILLIAMS

Friday Nice Night
And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
DAR WILLIAMS

Come Learning Magic Thinking
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
DAR WILLIAMS

Albums Play Song
If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
DAR WILLIAMS

Everything Helping Life Lucky
At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
DAR WILLIAMS

Country People Portland Roots
All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won’t make it harder, I’ll be there to cheer you on I’ll shine the light that guides you down the road you’re walking on
DAR WILLIAMS

Cheer Light Struggle
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
DAR WILLIAMS

Echo Kindness Time
I have a sordid past.
DAR WILLIAMS

Happen Past Sordid
There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bullshit Feelings Towns
Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
DAR WILLIAMS

Careers Couple Thinking
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
DAR WILLIAMS

Jobs Praying World
I really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
DAR WILLIAMS

Identity Men Song
You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you’re establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
DAR WILLIAMS

Carer Extra Fly Layer Publicist
I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
DAR WILLIAMS

Play Sound Thinking

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