Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, Johnny Cash's first wife.
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.
Work. . . is redemption.
If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.
I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing. . . When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.
I wanted to be a songwriter. I didn't so much want to be a performer. I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.
Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.
Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.
No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.
For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.
Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.
I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.
I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.
Southern gentility is evocative to me.
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do