When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That’s what it’s all about–taking the music to the people. — Brandi Carlile

Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women’s issues, but now that she’s here, I’m even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline. — Brandi Carlile

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old. — Brandi Carlile

The mole can’t live in your dollhouse. — Brandi Carlile

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. — Brandi Carlile

Sometimes seeming happy can be self–destructive even when you’re sane. — Brandi Carlile

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock–y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. — Brandi Carlile

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you’re standing in the eye. — Brandi Carlile

But I’m warning you, we’re growing up. — Brandi Carlile

You can’t change people, but most importantly, unless you’re their momma, you don’t even know what’s best for them. — Brandi Carlile

People sing each other’s songs and they cultivate standards. That’s the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. — Brandi Carlile

Wherever is your heart I call home. — Brandi Carlile

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life. — Brandi Carlile

I feel like a lot of the singer–songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people’s songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression. — Brandi Carlile

I’m not sure I’ll ever be famous by anyone’s definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life’s work. — Brandi Carlile

Hallelujah’ is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great–great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It’s one of those really, really special songs. — Brandi Carlile

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren’t sitting well in a record, I’ll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it’s a better time. — Brandi Carlile

I’d love to claim the title of ‘songwriter’ or ‘intellectual,’ but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from. — Brandi Carlile

I love fishing, any kind of fishing. — Brandi Carlile

Singing is a form of meditation… apparently the only one that I have command over. — Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love. — Brandi Carlile

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing. — Brandi Carlile

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind. — Brandi Carlile

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love. — Brandi Carlile

The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals. — Brandi Carlile

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I’ve been and how I got to where I am. — Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. — Brandi Carlile

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I’ve been doing that for a long time. — Brandi Carlile

My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country–western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what. — Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. — Brandi Carlile

But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I’ve learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show. — Brandi Carlile

In life, I’m most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do. — Brandi Carlile

Bear the burdens of others, but don’t put them in your pocket too. — Brandi Carlile

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day. — Brandi Carlile