20 Quotes by Iris Dement

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.