Gillian Welch Quotes

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I sort of felt like being young was normally written about as being very fun and light-hearted. And I think that's true, but I don't feel like there's a lot of songs about how hard it is when you don't really know who you are or what you want, and you feel like you have to apologize for simply just existing.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.