Abigail Washburn Quotes

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.

I get really homesick inside.

My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.