I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
— Nanci Griffith
It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
I've always been a very prolific writer.
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
