Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter whose witty and poignant writing first attracted widespread attention with the gay-themed song “I Kissed a Girl,” died in a house fire in Woodbury, Minnesota on Thursday. She was 66.
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00:00Even if it's a big venue, I like to have it feel like I'm in someone's living room.
00:19I like to have conversations with people.
00:21I like to be able to look into their eyes.
00:24So I think this theater, even though it's dark, you can still see and feel the intimacy of the room.
00:33So I think it's a beautiful little place for that.
00:39And yeah, it's intense to do it every night.
00:43Because I was thinking that every night I play, there's a little bit of reliving seventh grade.
00:53You know, like, will I be rejected?
00:56Will people like me?
00:58So that irony is not lost.
01:02I lost my keys, I lost my heart
01:09Lost my car in the parking lot
01:12Lost my voice, but can hear sing
01:15From the island of lost things
01:18I lost my phone, I lost my way
01:22Lost the hours of the day
01:26Grandma's ring swirl down the drain
01:29To the island of lost things
01:32I've got new music down.
01:34I want to put out another record.
01:36So I've got to, as soon as this run is over, I've got a lot of work to do.
01:43And you know, it's funny at this, you know, I'm a little older, but I still, maybe there's a bit of, I've been doing this forever, but I still feel like a rookie.
02:01And maybe that's why I can do seventh grade, it feels so now and real to me, there's something wrong with me in that way, but in a good way, I feel like I'm still a rookie, I haven't, there's so much more to do.
02:18And I haven't done my best yet.