Edie Brickell

Edie Arlisa Brickell (born 10 March 1966) is an American singer-songwriter who became famous with the hit "What I Am" as the lead singer of the folk rock group Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. She is the wife of Paul Simon.

Quotes



 * 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"; the earliest references to this clearly indicate "choke" is the word used in the song; since then "chuck me" and "shove me" have sometimes appeared in internet renditions of the lyrics.


 * 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"