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If I woke up tomorrow and couldn't do music anymore, I absolutely don't know what I would do.
Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.
As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.
As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.
The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.
I would say that I'm opinionated and clumsy and I am definitely led by my heart over my head.
My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.
They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.
Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.
They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.
[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.
Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.
You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.
I dont hate L.A. There's a very beautiful side to it; it's scenic, and I can go horse riding.
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.
When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.
I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.
I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.
I believe we all share a responsibility to build a healthier, more just and prosperous world.
I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.
I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.
When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
There's a lot of power in the word 'no,' and a lot of people, like myself, need to know that.
I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.
You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.
I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.
No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.
Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.
The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.
Golf is the only sport I've encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.
The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.