Quotes by Nanci Griffith

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

I really don't know what tone it (the next CD) will take. I am writing a lot, and at the moment it just sounds like Nanci Griffith songs to me. I never know the difference. It is always the listeners who know what slot to put it in.

I was six years old when I learned to play the guitar, and only because I had been trying to learn to play the French horn. I came home one day, and my parents had taken the horn away because they said it was too painful. I highly recommend Taylor guitars. They practically play themselves.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

The unique challenge of working with an orchestra was leaving Nanci Griffith, the writer, at the door and entering the Abbey Road studio as part of the orchestra.