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Iris DeMent

"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."

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Iris DeMent
"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."

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Iris DeMent
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."

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Iris DeMent
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."

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Iris DeMent
"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

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Iris DeMent
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

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Iris DeMent
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."

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Iris DeMent
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."

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Iris DeMent
"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."

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"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."

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Iris DeMent
"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."

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Aberjhani

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

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Aberjhani

"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."

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Aberjhani

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Aberjhani

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

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Aberjhani

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Aberjhani

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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Aberjhani

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Aberjhani

"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."

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Aberjhani

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Aberjhani

"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."

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