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Michelle Shocked

"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

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"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

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"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."
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"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."
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"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."
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"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."
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"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."
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"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."
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"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."
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