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Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Iris DeMent

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Iris DeMent
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 5
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Paragould
Arkansas
Iris Luella DeMent
Ended
Emotions
Spent
Emotion
Maybe
Writing
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People
Dwelling

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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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