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Gin Wigmore Quotes

I’ve got some real diehards down in New Zealand; I look after them and make sure they always get tickets.

– Gin Wigmore

I’ve lived a lot since I was 16, so I’ve got more things to write about. I’ve started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who’ve taught me lots of things.

– Gin Wigmore

That’s the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you’d want to say.

– Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

– Gin Wigmore

I’m very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

– Gin Wigmore

You just feel better when you look nice.

– Gin Wigmore

My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something’s too fresh, you can’t quite word it.

– Gin Wigmore

I’m just going to tour; that’s the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.

– Gin Wigmore

It’s easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

– Gin Wigmore

I’m a big believer that when we put so much into our jobs – and everyone does – you deserve to be get paid for it instead of doing a gig and then having to work in a bar for eight hours.

– Gin Wigmore

I don’t think I’m a good-enough songwriter.

– Gin Wigmore

I don’t think I’m a diva.

– Gin Wigmore

When you’re young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you’re 40 in a red sports car.

– Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn’t know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn’t actually done much.

– Gin Wigmore

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, ‘Gin, we think you suck.’ I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

– Gin Wigmore

People might think I’m a bit more intimidating than I am.

– Gin Wigmore

I want to let everyone hear my music and enjoy it, but just as long as it’s fun. I’ll go as far as until it gets too much like a day job.

– Gin Wigmore

You can’t go round looking like a rag.

– Gin Wigmore

Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.

– Gin Wigmore

I’m not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.

– Gin Wigmore

I love playing shows. That’s the time I have to really share what I am about.

– Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it’s really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful – getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

– Gin Wigmore

You break up, and you say something pathetic, or you don’t even speak at all when someone’s telling you they don’t love you anymore. But then you think about it five minutes later, and you have all these great comebacks!

– Gin Wigmore

I want a long career in music, so you’ve gotta keep trying things out; it’s gotta get progressively better.

– Gin Wigmore

I’ve got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I’m so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I’ve still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music’s the only thing that’s managed to stick out for a long period of time.

– Gin Wigmore

When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don’t really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.

– Gin Wigmore