Jessica Rothe Quotes

Iggy Pop is legendary - he is awesome - and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song 'Cautious Man' is my favourite song. It's really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

I always hated that 'You Think You Know Me' music because it never fit me and what I actually listen to.

I really truly believe I found my identity with country music.

Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me.

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

The great thing about country songs is the storytelling.

I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. There was a three-year stint in my life where I listened to nothing else, so, I learned it very well.

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?

Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice cream shop, you can't really learn much about a person based on what kind of music they happen to like. As a personality test, it doesn't work even half the time. However, there is at least one thing you can learn: The most wretched people in the word are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

[While voicing] you have to create a feeling for what happened before a scene, what's going to happen after a scene, and what you are doing in a scene. You need to use your imagination even more and once your emotions are up, then your voice and expressions will go accordingly.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

Story is the language of the heart.

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.