Nanci Griffith

“I'm very proud of being a Texan.”

“I feel like I'm just a woman who is just trying to be a writer, and I'm not really a musician.”

“Hell, I'm a liberal.”

“I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good song than swimming with a stupid one.”

“The world has a hard time with righteous women.”

“My songs are my children. I love them all.”

“I was a big reader of fiction, of all kinds. I loved Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.”

“It's a real gift to be able to have the works of writers like Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner in your life.”

“I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I was born.”

“My mother and father are still together. They are my heroes.”

“I've had two battles with cancer. I'm a survivor.”

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”

“The dream was to be a writer. I was going to be a teacher, and that was it.”

“I don't think I'm a great singer. I'm a good storyteller.”

“I've been on the road since I was 14. I'm a road dog.”