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I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.
I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.
One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
I've found that I really don't want to go out on the road anymore. I love my home.
To me, those are the greatest treasures - the personal letters between my parents.
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
I wanted to have something that I was proud of and that I knew people would enjoy.
I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.
The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them.
Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.
If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.
We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
There is no shortcut to perfection. All it takes is hard work, and more hard work.
Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.
When I went to university I survived on jacket potatoes and pasta for three years.
I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.
I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.
I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.
This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first.
There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid.
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.
The time between meeting, and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love.
I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.
The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.
People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.
Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.
I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.
It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.
I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.