Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

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!

Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

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.

Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

I've always been a very prolific writer.

Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.