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I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
Michelle Shocked
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Michelle Shocked
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 24
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Dallas
Texas
Karen Michelle Johnston
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What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for? You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen it all. And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean.
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The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
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We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
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I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
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I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
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At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.
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I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.
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The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.
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The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
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I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.
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I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.
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Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.
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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
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Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
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Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
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When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
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