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• ”’Sail through the sea of sad faces with love.

Love. Love for everyone.
Drift like a little boat on a wave.”’

• “Big Day Little Boat” on Edie Brickell & New Bohemians : Ultimate Collection (2002)

• 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.

• “Whatever happened to Edie Brickell?” CNN.com (7 January 2004)

• 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.”

• Of her performance of “What I Am” on Saturday Night Live, when she noticed Paul Simon standing in front of a cameraman. “Whatever happened to Edie Brickell?” CNN.com (7 January 2004)

• 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.

• On her inspiration for the song “What I Am” in “Edie Brickell, New Bohemians Return to The Fillmore” in San Francisco Bay Times (12 October 2006)

Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

• ”’I'm not aware of too many things.

I know what I know if you know what I mean.”’

• “What I Am”

• Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box.

Religion, is a smile on a dog.

• “What I Am”

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

• “What I Am”

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

• “What I Am”

• The village idiots in her bed

Never cared that her eyes were red
Never cared that her brain was dead.
In the hours that her face was alive
It was a thing just to be by her side.

• “Little Miss S.”

• Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning

And nothing’s disturbing the way they go around.

• “The Wheel”

• All your thoughts are in another head.

Your dreams are sleepin’ in a different bed.
”’The force that moves you is a circular breath
of life and death going round and round and round.”’

• “The Wheel”

• ”’Maybe you ride a different wave.

Maybe you catch another ray of the sun
That I’ve just begun to feel.”’

• “The Wheel”

• I don’t believe in hatred anymore.

I hate to think of how it felt before
”’When anger overwhelms your very soul
It’s hard to realize you’ll ever know Love like we do.”’

• “Love Like We Do”

• When I’m all alone it’s the best way to be.

When I’m by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway.
When the streets are wet — the colors slip into the sky.
But I don’t know why that means you and I are — that means you and… I quit, I give up.
Nothin’s good enough for anybody else, it seems.

• “Circle”

• I notice me. I notice you too.

And there are simple things that we don’t even try anymore. There’s a way out of this.
Beat the time.
And every time I turn around
we got some clever way to put each other down.

• “Beat The Time”

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