“When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wari...” — Tift Merritt Quote

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

It's not like I was just dropped onto a snowboard and I was able to go 15 feet into the air. There was a lot of hard work that came with it. That's something that people don't really notice sometimes and the amount of sacrifice my family made.

When you have a guest role, it's like being dropped into a show out of a helicopter.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

For a while, I was all sports all the time. Then, as I started to get into theater, they dropped away, but I hung on tight with a highly competitive Ultimate Frisbee team. It was probably less intense than I remember, but it was fun.