Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words

Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words by Woodworth, Marc. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780385324076.

This first-of-its-kind collection vibrates with the high-voltage energy of todays most exciting female singer-songwriters as they speak out, look inside, and reveal their lives. Sarah McLachlan: "When I sang and played Id get completely lost in what I was doing. During that time, I was no longer this stupid, useless little ten-year-old who didnt have any friends. I was someplace else, where none of that could touch me." Jewel: "Fame exists in other peoples minds. I cant experience my own fame at all but I experience it in other peoples eyes when I look at them and see that theyre scared." Shawn Colvin: "Giving up addiction was the springboard into adult thinking. I realized that everything was a choice. The world was an open book. Nothing was the same after that." Sheryl Crow: "I always pictured myself as a loner off living like a Jack Kerouac character or, worse, someone out of a Charles Bukowski book, one of those down-and-outers who works at a gas station and has no one and no family." Lucinda Williams: "I dont want to offend anyone, but I like to push peoples buttons. While I want to appeal to people in all walks of life, I also want to get a response, make them think."