64 Quotes by Michelle Shocked

If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don’t want anyone to broker it for me. I don’t want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I’m only human. I’m prone to making mistakes.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It’s never failed me. Never.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn’t choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they’d seen it all.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret’s School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they’re dancing fools. It’s the only vice they have – dancing.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I’m a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the ‘L’ word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn’t fit in was because they hadn’t told me there were more categories to fit into.

At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I’ll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I’m in a position to defeat stereotypes.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I’ve been traveling.