Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.