You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.
Emmylou HarrisThe reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.
Emmylou HarrisAnimals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Emmylou HarrisLike falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl
Emmylou Harris