As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
I think the frightening thing is when we lose our civility, which I think is happening across the board, and I find disturbing.
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
With the Constitution they set something in motion that is a pretty extraordinary document and a recipe for the way you would want people to live.
Emmylou is also a supporter of animal rights and an active member of PETA.
In 1977, Harris married Brian Ahern and in 1979, had another daughter, Meghann. 1979. But their marriage ended in divorce in the year 1984.
Shortly after her marriage to Tom, he and Emmylou got a divorce. Emmylou then moved in with her parents in Washington D.C.
In 1969, Emmylou married a fellow songwriter: Tom Slocum.
When she started studying music seriously, she learned to play the songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar.
Even though she was born in Birmingham, Alabama, she spent her childhood in North Carolina and Virgina.
Emmylou is a country, folk and alternative singer and songwriter.
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