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One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

- Patty Griffin
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Patty Griffin
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If you're working on ideas, and you don't know what they are, keep working on them. You don't know what they'll be.

If you're working on ideas, and you don't know what they are, keep working on them. You don't know what they'll be.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

I just really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice takes you to what it wants to sing. And that is how the best stuff kind of emerges.

I love Texas itself. The landscape is remarkable. The combination of cultures here is incredible. And the history here is pretty remarkable, too, going back centuries.

A lot of things drew me to Texas. One is the wilderness: It's pretty close to wide open spaces, which I didn't grow up around and I love. You don't have to have a lot of money to have a view: The view is the sky, and it's everywhere.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

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One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.