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When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.
The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.
Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.
I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.
I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.
My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.
I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.
When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
The 2018 tour is supposed to be a farewell tour. But you take farewell tours one at a time.
Michael Jackson is the most awesome person who ever walked onstage. He was just incredible.
I know from my own experience that anything is possible, that there's nothing you can't do.
I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue.
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
By fusing R&B with a U.K. garage sound, you can create energy. 'Fill Me In' showed me that.
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
Remember to be yourself and remember throughout everything why you first wanted to do this.
What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.
I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.
When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.
Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.
Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.
They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.
It's about knowing how to make a groove happen and keep it going so others can play off it.
But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment
I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it
As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.
I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.
You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.
The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.
Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But while I'm doing vocal in a studio, I can't stand it.
I always felt that I was never acknowledged for a lot of things - award shows, all of that.
CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.
I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.
I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!
I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.