Edie Brickell

"Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave."

"I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself."

"He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.""

"In a world religion class, everyone was complicating life and existence by over-thinking. I had this sense it's right here, right now. It's who we are and what we feel. It's not this tangled web of psychology and philosophy. I was driving to band practice and started singing that song. I wanted to be real, not adopt some philosophy or role. Instinct is our driving force."

"I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean."

"Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog."

"Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep."

"What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?"

"The village idiots in her bed Never cared that her eyes were red Never cared that her brain was dead. In the hours that her face was alive It was a thing just to be by her side."

"Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around."

"All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round."

"Maybe you ride a different wave. Maybe you catch another ray of the sun That I've just begun to feel."

"I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever knowLove like we do."

"When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye.Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet — the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are — that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems."

"I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down."