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My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.
I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.
You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.
I didn't know anything about fashion, growing up in Orange County. I just knew about it through music, how ska bands dressed.
All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.
It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.
I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.
When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.
I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.
I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.
I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.
My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.
Ever since I left the Brit school I've been so protected. I had a woman to do my hair and makeup every day throughout my 20s.
I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.
There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.
Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.
Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.
Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.
I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.
I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.
I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.
I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.
I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.
You have to stick to your guns and still know when to be flexible. That's something I've had to learn-which battles to fight.
I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.
I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.