Edie Brickell

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

— Edie Brickell

Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Drift like a little boat on a wave.

— Edie Brickell

I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

— Edie Brickell

He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."

— Edie Brickell

In a world religion class, everyone was complicating life and existence by over-thinking. I had this sense it's right here, right now. It's who we are and what we feel. It's not this tangled web of psychology and philosophy. I was driving to band practice and started singing that song. I wanted to be real, not adopt some philosophy or role. Instinct is our driving force.

— Edie Brickell

I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.

— Edie Brickell

Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.

— Edie Brickell

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

— Edie Brickell

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?

— Edie Brickell

The village idiots in her bed It was a thing just to be by her side.

— Edie Brickell

Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

— Edie Brickell

All your thoughts are in another head. of life and death going round and round and round.

— Edie Brickell

Maybe you ride a different wave. That I've just begun to feel.

— Edie Brickell

When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

— Edie Brickell

I notice me. I notice you too. we got some clever way to put each other down.

— Edie Brickell

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

— Edie Brickell

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

— Edie Brickell

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

— Edie Brickell