My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance… It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, ‘I don’t know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,’ at the same time, I did understand that this was passion. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
I admired Mary’s work very much. From the time someone gave me ‘The Liars’ Club,’ I immediately went into a world where I grew up. And I remember, when I finished the book, I actually thought, ‘You know what, I need to write songs with her.’ Rodney Crowell Read Quote
I don’t know if I owned a toothbrush until I was 19, maybe. I didn’t come from stock that placed any importance on the toothbrush. But a couple of girls I met changed that. And I would do anything to get a girl to pay attention to me long enough that I could feel good about myself. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
I cannot say I’m a poet. That’s for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow ‘poet’ on. I can’t do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn’t say that my intention is poetry. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I’m not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
My mother’s a very spiritual woman, and I think Pentecostal religion, Bible religion, was very important to her because it gave her a context for a very spiritual approach to life. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn’t fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it’s not you anymore. Rodney Crowell Read Quote
