“I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I'v...” — Rhiannon Giddens Quote

“I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little. Who am I? What makeup do I have? What are the black and the white?”

“My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year.”

“You know, I really feel a responsibility to the music, and I teach workshops in music sometimes. And folks do come to me and they go, 'How do I make this blues song my own? How do I feel like I'm not an impostor doing this?' And I'm like, 'That's an excellent question.' That's where you should start, where you go, 'How does this speak to me?'”

“I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.”

“Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest.”

“I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.”