“I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before.” (Piven Jeremy)
“We did Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age, Bubbles in My Beer, I Was Just Walking Out the Door, You Don't Know Me , a lot of good songs.” (Piven Jeremy)
“Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt” (Piven Jeremy)
“My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.” (Piven Jeremy)
“When you're in the studio at a young age, you're not aware that there's a union where you can hire musicians. So you have all of this equipment and you just learn how to play it yourself.” (Piven Jeremy)
Besides the national anthem, that is pretty much the best song ever written. Every time I listen to it I want to cry. (Piven Jeremy)
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual. (Piven Jeremy)
So the pure Sondheim-phile, who is so familiar with the songs from the shows, might have a more difficult time because they are not about the shows. (Piven Jeremy)
“I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me, it's about the song. I'm just the lucky girl who gets to sing these songs.” (Piven Jeremy)
“These aren't my songs. My intention wasn't to make them Martina McBride songs.” (Piven Jeremy)
“I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.” (Piven Jeremy)
After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written. (Piven Jeremy)
Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing. (Piven Jeremy)
What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. (Piven Jeremy)
I really trust Puffs ears so we picked all the songs that would make the album together. (Piven Jeremy)
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country. (Piven Jeremy)
“You're singing in the voice of somebody who lived 100 years ago, some of them three, four hundred years ago.” (Piven Jeremy)
“I have no rules left. I don't have to get on the radio. It's wide open for me. The singer-songwriters I admire - Dylan, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie - move forward all the time.” (Piven Jeremy)
“I'll let somebody else sort that part of it, I guess. But a lot of 'em seem pretty applicable, you know? Mrs. McGrath is basically an Irish anti-war song, but it's ripped right out of the headlines everyday today.” (Piven Jeremy)
“This is a song tax, ... for not being (in Madison) for so long.” (Piven Jeremy)
“Everything I knew and dreamed about was packed into those songs,” (Piven Jeremy)
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