23 Quotes by Tift Merritt

You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

I really love music, and I definitely love playing music and getting to be a part of music.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.