“But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything ha...” — Edie Brickell Quote

“But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.”

“You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.”

“When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.”

“I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.”

“Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.”

“My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart.”