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One of the things I found really intriguing about country music when I was a performance artist was that it had the potential  to change lyrically and thematically. Where [country] had been sort of one-dimensional and in some ways myopic lyrically, not in a negative way but in the way artists dealt with  very limited subjects, I felt there was room for perhaps a new perspective. 

-k.d. in Bay Area Music, June 1989

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"My mother was a grade two teacher. So I'd always look at small letters and I print in small letters, too. I do. That's the way I write. And in high school there was an e.e. cummings poster up and I remember him using small letters. So . . . I didn't do it just to be like him. I just did it. No reason."

-k.d. explaining her lack of capital letters to Bay Area Music, 1989

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I'm smitten right now with this photo (scanned from Bay Area Music, June 1989, a newsprint publication).

"I really just react to what's going on in my life," lang says, attempting to explain her look. . . Shrugging off comments like, "Why doesn't she look more like a girl?" and "Isn't that really a young John Lennon on the cover of Shadowland?", lang remains a likeable maverick with one of the sweetest smiles and the warmest eyes this side of Holly Hunter. "Now," k.d. admits, "I'm not sure what I'm going to wear or look like on this tour."

-k.d. at the start of her Absolute Torch and Twang tour