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Edie Brickell

"A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me."

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"A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me."

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Donna Grant

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

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Donna Grant

"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."

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Donna Grant

"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

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Donna Grant

"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."

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Donna Grant

"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."

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Donna Grant

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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Donna Grant

"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."

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Donna Grant

"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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Donna Grant

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

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Donna Grant

"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

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Edie Brickell
"A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me."

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Edie Brickell
"No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after."

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Edie Brickell
"When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that."

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Edie Brickell
"My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!"

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Edie Brickell
"Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste."

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Edie Brickell
"You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along."

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Edie Brickell
"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records."

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Edie Brickell
"I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!"

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Edie Brickell
"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."

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Edie Brickell
"My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel."

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