20 Quotes by Iris Dement

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music-I spend so much time working at my own music.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.