Sarah Vowell Quotes

I'm promoting partying and having fun and being that type of American. I don't wanna hurt nobody's feelings.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'

What makes America unique in the world is the idea of the self-directed life.

They [the Americans] certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.

I think most Americans, when we're building a character, we look at the specificity of what that person is, in particular.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

I've always been a nonconformist. I think that nonconformity is part of the American DNA.

What's more American than young people speaking their mind over things they had to create over pots and pans and electronically because music was taken out of schools? What's more American than making something out of nothing? What's more gospel than rap music?

I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

Whoever said blondes have more fun hasn't met me.

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

I like to have fun. I'm definitely sexually liberated and all that good stuff.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

Who hasn't danced in their underwear?

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.