Brandi Carlile quote: "I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time."

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
BRANDI CARLILE

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming o...
BRANDI CARLILE

When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit...
BRANDI CARLILE

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl&...
BRANDI CARLILE

'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will le...
BRANDI CARLILE

I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half...
BRANDI CARLILE

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my ...
BRANDI CARLILE

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that...
BRANDI CARLILE

It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibi...
BRANDI CARLILE

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the comple...
BRANDI CARLILE

My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furni...
BRANDI CARLILE

I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of - it was pu...
AUSTIN CARLILE

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and...
AUSTIN CARLILE

That's Trevor 'The Waterfall' Hall. He's the full package. He's the full meal deal. ... It may look ...
DAVE CARLILE

Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I firs...
AUSTIN CARLILE

A girl doesn't want to look like her bag has love handles. You want your bag to be as sleek and sexy...
ALI CARLILE

I don't think there's a lawyer alive and working who's ever appeared in any part of a treason case a...
LORD CARLILE

He's got just great technique, and he stays in great position. He's got a heart about the size of Te...
DAVE CARLILE

The bigger the match, the bigger the Anthony.
DAVE CARLILE

This was our goal all year long. These kids did a great job to step up and believe in themselves.
DAVE CARLILE

They really stepped up to the challenge tonight. They wrestled for each other.
DAVE CARLILE

We're having a good tournament. Our goal was to score 50 points [Friday] and break 100 points [today...
DAVE CARLILE

We're trying to wrestle the toughest competition we can find.
DAVE CARLILE

This will make us hungry.
DAVE CARLILE

We've been going there for 13 years, and this was probably the toughest competition that we've seen ...
DAVE CARLILE

Those guys are religious followers. That's a great place to go to improve your skills and get some g...
DAVE CARLILE

I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by na...
AUSTIN CARLILE

I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.
AUSTIN CARLILE

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of makin...
AUSTIN CARLILE

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than ...
AUSTIN CARLILE

Further suicide bombings in the UK must be expected, and the targets are unpredictable.
LORD CARLILE

Given that there is the control order system in existence, it would be preferable for that system to...
LORD CARLILE

ID cards could be of some value in the fight against terrorism but they are probably of quite limite...
LORD CARLILE

A more searching system is required to reflect the seriousness of the state holding someone in high-...
LORD CARLILE

I don't myself think that increasing it to 28 days is going to make a very significant amount of dif...
LORD CARLILE

I think a much tighter system of control is required, though I do think that fairly lengthy detentio...
LORD CARLILE

On the evidence I have seen and heard, I believe that the security situation in Northern Ireland and...
LORD CARLILE

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
BRANDI SNYDER

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
BRANDI SNYDER

Hey!” The male voice sliced through the noise. Terri ignored him, determined to get back to the ba...
BRANDI SALAZAR

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it&#...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia an...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

I furrowed my brows at him. What was so amazing about a stick? I could pick one up outside on the wa...
BRANDI SALAZAR

There were still times I was nervous. Throughout the year there were times where you could see that ...
BRANDI MUIRHEAD

She has no fear of anything. I could picture her skydiving, I could picture her doing anything. She ...
BRANDI MUIRHEAD

In the second half, she couldn't find her shot very well. No one else stepped up to help her score.
BRANDI MUIRHEAD

I thought we turned it over in the press, and we should have scored in the press. We couldn't get ou...
BRANDI MUIRHEAD

We played really hard. I thought we did a good job.
BRANDI MUIRHEAD

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.
BRANDI CHASTAIN

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you gui...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back ...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were wi...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

I create tension on the elastic band by moving away from the person who's holding it, and I maintain...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

By taking my hand from a stable surface and placing it on an unstable one [the soccer ball], I'm wor...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

The process for our evaluation has been seven months and 160 training sessions and 20-some-odd games...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

Ranting about politics is her hobby. It's what gets her going in the morning. It's like coffee to Ju...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

She's a people person. She's welcoming whether you just met her 30 seconds ago or you've known her 3...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

Balancing on an unstable surface, I'm forced to use every muscle in my leg and all the muscles in my...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

We picked three-man so we could spray their helmets red, white and blue, for America.
BRANDI BROWN

That's to go for tonight. Everything is delicious.
BRANDI BROWN

I tasted spring - the cupcakes and pizza and polish sausage. From the fall, I had turkey and dressin...
BRANDI BROWN

I knew she was a good player. None of the posts in our district are like that. She's a tough player.
BRANDI BROWN

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
BRANDI SNYDER

Violence rarely changes things. You can bust someone's head and still not change their mind.
BRANDI KEELER

Imperfection is the only perfect thing, just as the only constant thing is change.
BRANDI KEELER

I don't want her at all to follow in the footsteps I went through.
BRANDI MCCABE

Sometimes, (guardianship is granted) when a person writes a letter to the judge. (My aunt) wrote a l...
BRANDI KNIGHT

This was like being in one of those National Geographic magazines. We were among the natives now.
BRANDI SALAZAR

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, an...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

It?s definitely grown. We have more vendors and customers each year.
BRANDI HOSKINS

There is nothing wrong with being a smaller part of a greater whole. Just a the atoms in our body ex...
BRANDI KEELER

There is a big difference between telling the truth and being honest. Being honest requires knowing ...
BRANDI KEELER

When you accept that your purpose is simply to exist, then, and only then, do you have the freedom t...
BRANDI KEELER

Stop treating your vagina like a weird purse; only wearing it on special occasions and just randomly...
BRANDI KEELER

There is a difference between procrastination and patience just as there is a difference between wan...
BRANDI KEELER

God makes the best roller coasters.
BRANDI KEELER

Faith is accepting that you don't know, and trusting that God does.
BRANDI KEELER

It is odd that 'sword' and 'words' have the same letters and even more strange that they have the sa...
BRANDI KEELER

We're not going to pick and choose. Either they all go or no one goes.
BRANDI RAY

We had already selected the athletes who were going to go, and we didn't want to disappoint them. Th...
BRANDI RAY

When the hurricanes came, we lost a lot of our funding. A lot of the people and businesses who have ...
BRANDI RAY

I'm definitely pro-life; I don't really parallel that with my feminist approach or whatever. I think...
BRANDI PERL

When I was in my gender class a lot of it was hard for me to listen to these women; I just felt they...
BRANDI PERL

I would have to say that I'm not [a feminist]. I definitely agree there are some issues where women ...
BRANDI PERL

I was willing to do anything, just to be able to walk. I'm getting a lot more credits than I ever wo...
BRANDI MCCABE

I never thought I'd be able to catch back up, but I'll be able to walk (at graduation) with the rest...
BRANDI MCCABE

We have to file a motion with the court. Because no else is petitioning guardianship for him. It cou...
BRANDI KNIGHT

I think there was too much of a coincidence to believe that I won't ever get to be with him again. I...
BRANDI KNIGHT

I have a younger brother that is in between him and I. He has two nieces that he's never met, he has...
BRANDI KNIGHT

We just need to find someone to petition for guardianship on our behalf, but no one will touch this ...
BRANDI KNIGHT

I put two and two together and knew it was him.
BRANDI KNIGHT

I'm in awe of how many people care about us. We're an unselfish team and this isn't just our champio...
BRANDI KING

It's unbelievable, I'm so excited. We were behind each other all the way. Coach Hodson talked us wha...
BRANDI KING

I think we'll re-boost our confidence and know that we can do it. We just need all the pieces to com...
BRANDI KING

Our defense was bad all the way around. They're a real active team and constantly push the ball.
BRANDI KIMBLE

It was important for us to get our confidence back.
BRANDI KIMBLE

We lost touch because she changed high schools, but I know she's a great player. She's a really good...
BRANDI KIMBLE

We've burdened the citizens so much, and I know we don't want to burden the business community more ...
BRANDI JONES

We have different booths set up for home appliances, furnishing, landscaping ? just about anything t...
BRANDI HOSKINS

My biggest hope is that now everyone can get back to focusing on Evelyn's homicide case.
BRANDI HOFFMANN

Those children do exist somewhere in the world, and what they went through is just awful.
BRANDI HOFFMANN

I was actually happy to see him take responsibility. That had to have been hard for him to admit tho...
BRANDI HOFFMANN

He did not begin making demands until she was already here in Texas.
BRANDI GRISSOM

She believed it was a mission effort by him to do better things for herself and for her family.
BRANDI GRISSOM

They are not juvenile delinquents. These are children who have been taken from homes that were bad f...
BRANDI DOLLAR

We would like to open up a thrift store in the future. We can sell what we can't use.
BRANDI DOLLAR

We get to use it [the guest house] as is.
BRANDI DOLLAR

We obviously did not take care of the ball. The pressure got to us.
BRANDI DAVIS

We needed this win, needed it for confidence going into the Stanford game (on the road Thursday).
BRANDI DAVIS

We're looking forward to it, and hopefully we'll go far.
BRANDI CHAFFINS

It's hard. You can't really hold back. If we have a lot of fouls, we try to guard the easier girl an...
BRANDI CHAFFINS

I don't think we would have won as much. She's a big help to the team. I don't know how we'd be with...
BRANDI CHAFFINS

(Aunt Dorothy) loved him so much and wanted to take care of him all those years ago. She can take ca...
BRANDI KNIGHT

Rocky paths are filled with stepping stones.
BRANDI GALLOWAY

Whatever floats your boat...and doesn't sink mines.
BRANDI KEELER

Abuse comes in many forms: emotional, physical, psychological, sexual, psychic, etc. When someone be...
BRANDI KEELER

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the thing...
BRANDI CHASTAIN

Will that be all?” I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen t...
BRANDI SALAZAR

Wes sat in a cracked vinyl booth picking at his fries and listening to Amanda go on and on about the...
BRANDI SALAZAR

Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon a...
BRANDI L. BATES

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...
BRANDI L. BATES

No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you...
BRANDI L. BATES

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find y...
BRANDI L. BATES

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for tho...
BRANDI L. BATES

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.
BRANDI L. BATES

Be selective in your battles...
BRANDI L. BATES

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profund...
BRANDI L. BATES

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches abo...
BRANDI L. BATES

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no sp...
BRANDI L. BATES

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the...
BRANDI L. BATES

The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. ...
BRANDI L. BATES

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color o...
BRANDI L. BATES

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

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I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

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