Shawn Colvin Quotes

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

When I finally started to heal, that was the inspiration.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.