Iris Dement Quotes
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Fun, Writing)
"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."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Music, Money, Today)
"Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me."
- Iris Dement
(Related: American, Fight, Pretty, Sin)
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Time, People, Emotions, Writing)
"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."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Time, Want)
"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Guitar)
"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."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Attention, Result, Songs, World)
"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Fun)
"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."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Music, Time, Work)
"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Cause)
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Family)
"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Music, Time)
"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: People)
"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Life, Christian, Religious)
"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."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Music, Time, People, Being, Help, Trying)
"And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long."
- Iris Dement
(Related: Memories, Walking)
"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."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: People, Feelings, Pretty)