Elizabeth Day “Sheryl Crow: 'I was a people-pleaser and I had to unlearn that'” http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/jul/18/sheryl-crow-elizabeth-day
最近新譜100 Miles From Memphisをリリースしたシェリル・クロウへのインタヴュー。
ちょっとメモ。
故郷メンフィスについて；
マイケル・ジャクソン*1について；
Did growing up close to Memphis have an influence on you musically?A ton of influence, because I come from a town that is actually 100 miles from Memphis and people didn't travel nearly as much as they do now, so Memphis was the big city for us. There was quite a mystique about it because so many great artists had come from there, Elvis included, and I heard a lot of them on the radio, which was AM radio then. Gosh, I heard everything. "Knock on Wood", "Chain of Fools", all that old stuff.
これはもうちょっと語ってほしかった。
You toured with Michael Jackson as a backing singer on his Bad world tour. What was he like?He was really reclusive by the time I worked with him, but I liked him very much. When I heard about his death, I didn't believe it. I thought it was a hoax. I didn't believe it and it made me really sad.
1994年の”All I Wanna Do”について；
Your breakthrough song, "All I Wanna Do", was played all the time on the radio when it was released in 1994. How do you feel listening to it now?I'm really proud of it. Even though people really invested meaning in the chorus and were not necessarily picking up on the direness of the lyrics, they remember where they were when they first heard it and that doesn't normally happen.
- アーティスト: Sheryl Crow
- 出版社/メーカー: A&M
- 発売日: 1993/08/03
- メディア: CD
- クリック: 2回
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You were treated for breast cancer four years ago. How did surviving cancer change the way you live your life?The entire experience was a real source of remembering who I am. It was about looking at my life and realigning it. Every experience you have where life comes to a screeching halt dictates that you take a refresher course on who you came in as. I was someone who could never say no. I had to learn to say no, I had to learn to be OK with not everyone liking me because I was a people-pleaser, a caretaker, and I had to unlearn that.
The first thing I had to learn how to do was to sit, be quiet and hold an emotion, and not to do that thing of staying busy and not thinking about it, because you wind up not experiencing the lesson. So I allowed myself to grieve, to feel scared, and I came out of it feeling like I'd been liberated.
Did you become more open in your music as well?
Yeah. I think whatever happens in your life will definitely show up in your art. Your life informs your art and definitely my last record was a direct result of what I'd been through.
