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I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.
Valerie June
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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
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Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
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I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
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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.
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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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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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I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.
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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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I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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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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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
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As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
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My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
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I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.
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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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I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.
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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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I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, We've gotta turn this around!
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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 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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