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Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
Valerie June
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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
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Valerie June Hockett
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If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.
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Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.
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Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it God's country!
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.
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They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.
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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
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I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.
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As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
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I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here! And Memphis is like, Well, you'll get there one day!
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When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
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Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?
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Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.
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Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
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I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
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