36 Quotes by Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.

You can't go round looking like a rag.

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.

No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.