Top 18 Quotes by Iris Dement

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.