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Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Boys are cute, but food is cuter

Boy, you better pray that I bleed real soon.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. I made a conscious choice when I put (the song) 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.

Get off the cross, we need the wood.

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

I call that god the Little G. Because the god that we've been worshipping is not to me the Supreme Creator. Anybody who needs to control and make people feel ashamed. . .It's like, 'I send my only begotten son. . .' Well you know, that concept of sending a son where we as women could, like, breastfeed him and give him milk, but he's not gonna soil his dinky with us? What's that all about?

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.