"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a fresh..." — 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!

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.