56 Quotes by Shawn Colvin

What’s great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there’s a commonality.

Give me some credit for the hell I’ve paid.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there’s not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can’t.

I'm not gay - everybody thinks I am - but I dig 'The L Word.'

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

I made a promise to myself to write songs I liked. I'm an acoustic singer/songwriter, and I need to be able play every song by myself on guitar. No matter what the production ends up being on the record, I've got to be able to go out and sell it all on my own. It's about connection.

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

I'm a touring musician. I don't watch the charts. I had the kind of success I'd hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.