American - Artist | January 10, 1958 -
When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.
Shawn Colvin
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As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.
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My music is basically perceived as folk or softer rock.
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When I made 'A Few Small Repairs' and it did well, I followed that up with having a baby, and that was not received well at my record company. I was written off, and that had a bearing on my career.
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I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.
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When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.
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I don't support Trump. We'll put that right out there.
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Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.
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I've had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.
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I'm not gay - everybody thinks I am - but I dig 'The L Word.'
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I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.
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I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'
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