I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

I made a lot of money, but you can dangerously let it lead you on. It depends what company you keep.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

I don't take anything too seriously. If I do, I realize pretty quickly that's why I'm uncomfortable.

At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.

I want to be one of those moms and women that when I look back, I know that I always stayed focused.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

Working with Method Man was such an honor. I love his music even though I didn't grow up in his era.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

Thankfully, my manager didn't talk me into 'Big Brother' or 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

When I step into the light My arms are open wide When I step into the light My eyes searching wildly

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me

If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

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