Michelle Branch Quotes:

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Topics: Music, Writing, Thinking, Fingertips

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Bad Day, Guitar, Having A Bad Day

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Feels, Connected

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

source: - Song: Everywhere

Topics: Relationship, Sleep

I put myself into character for my songs.

Topics: Song, Character

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Topics: Musical, Broadway, Want

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

source: - "Why Michelle Branch Almost Quit Music". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 27, 2011.

Topics: Country, Writing, Mind

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Pirate, Attention, Want

Music has always been in me.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

source: - Song: Drop In The Ocean, Album: The Spirit Room, 2001

Topics: Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean, Drifting, Drops In The Ocean

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.

source: - "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

Topics: Jeans, Keys, Style, Record Labels

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.

Topics: Fun, Years, Want

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Who I Am, Essence, Brain, Turn Off

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Sexy, Eye, Pirate, Fetish

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

source: - "Song: Desperately ("Hotel Paper ")". June 24, 2003.

Topics: Fall, Thinking, Way, Falling For You

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

Topics: Hurt, Want, It Hurts

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

source: - "Why Michelle Branch Almost Quit Music". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 27, 2011.

Topics: Letting Go, Moving, Moments

I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.

Topics: Mom, Jobs, Couple, Away From Home

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

source: - "Why Michelle Branch Almost Quit Music". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 27, 2011.

Topics: Wine, Garden, Animal

I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.

Topics: Air, Too Much, Needs

I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.

Topics: People, Sound

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

source: - "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

Topics: Geek, Choir, Theater

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

source: - "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

Topics: Jobs, Night, Play, Tuesday Night

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

Topics: Thinking, Years, Others Opinions, Listening To Others

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

Topics: Long, Prove, Adamant

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

Topics: Heart, My Heart

Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do.

source: - Song: Drop In The Ocean, Album: Spirit Room, 2001

Topics: Romantic

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and it’s what takes up all my time.

source: - "News Again: Michelle Branch". Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 24, 2017.

Topics: Guitar, People, Ask Me