I think a lot of people think that my parents deaths is why I write such sad songs, but thats not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. – Shelby Lynne
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know thats not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
