Brandi Carlile Quotes

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

The purpose of it all is love.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

Wherever is your heart I call home.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.