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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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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Dallas
Texas
Karen Michelle Johnston
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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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Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
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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 accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
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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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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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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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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.
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Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
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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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I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.
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