124 Quotes by Rosanne Cash

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

Work ... is redemption.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.