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

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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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"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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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
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"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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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
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