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Does The Moon Play Only Silver When It Strums The Galaxy?

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I Don't Know How To Sell Out. If I Tried To Sell Out I Don't Think I Could.

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We Managed To Put Together A Compilation That Had Some Creativity To It. In The Meantime I Was Listening To The Free Radio Stations And I Noticed That During Their War Coverage They Were Playing These Songs Born Out Of The Vietnam War That Were All Critical Of The Soldiers.

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I Sang In Art School, Just To Get Money To Smoke.

Some Turn To Jesus And Some Turn To Heroin.

During Times Like These, The Wise Are Influential.

Times Like These

Inside Your Own Self Pity There You Swim, In Sinking Down To Drown Her Voice Still Haunts You, And Only With Your Laughter Can You Win.

I Know My Generation - A Lot Of Them, They're Getting Old Now, And They Want To Think Back Fondly, They Want To Kid Themselves. A Lot Of Them Think, 'yeah, We Were The Best.' That's The Kiss Of Death. That's Non-growth. And Also That's Very Bad For The World.

Rachmaninoff Made A Musician Out Of Me. His 'rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini' Was The Piece That Sent Me Into Raptures. It Spoke To Me. To Me, It Was A Tender Entreaty For The Misunderstood.

Moons And Junes And Ferris Wheels The Dizzy Dancing Way You Feel As Every Fairy Tale Comes Real I've Looked At Love That Way.

I See The Entire World As Eden, And Every Time You Take An Inch Of It Away, You Must Do So With Respect.

We Have A War Dictator Who Was Not Elected, He Snuck In. So He Punishes People That Threaten Him In Any Way, Or Even Say Something He Doesn't Like. It Has No Resemblance To Democracy.

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I Paint My Joy And I Sing My Sorrow.

When I Began Experimenting, People Weren't Ready For It. Once It's In Its Second And Third Generational Stages, People Can Accept It.

I Liked Playing In Small Clubs. I Really Liked Holding The Attention Of Thirty Or Forty People. I Never Liked The Roar Of The Big Crowd.

I Always Thought The Women Of Song Don't Get Along, And I Don't Know Why That Is.

You've Got To Keep The Child Alive; You Can't Create Without It.

They Paved Paradise And Put Up A Parkin Lot With A Pink Hotel, A Boutique, And A Swingin' Hot Spot Don't It Always Seem To Go That You Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone

Innocence Is Drowned In Anarchy. The Best Lack Conviction Given Time To Think, And The Worst Are Full Of Passion Without Mercy.

Fly Silly Sea Bird, No Dreams Can Possess You, No Voices Can Blame You For Sun On Your Wings.

I'm A Method Actress In My Songs, Which Is Why It's Hard To Sing Them.

They Paved Paradise And Put Up A Parking Lot.

I Am A Woman Of Heart And Mind, Looking For Affection And Respect, A Little Passion.

I Heard Someone From The Music Business Saying They Are No Longer Looking For Talent, They Want People With A Certain Look And A Willingness To Cooperate. I Thought, That's Interesting, Because I Believe A Total Unwillingness To Cooperate Is What Is Necessary To Be An Artist — Not For Perverse Reasons, But To Protect Your Vision. The Considerations Of A Corporation, Especially Now, Have Nothing To Do With Art Or Music. That's Why I Spend My Time Now Painting.

For The First Time In My Career, I'm Working In A Fine-arts Arena, So I'm Finally Getting Some Intelligent Reviews.

There Was This Mountain Village In Russia Where My Music Was Getting In On Some German Radio Station. I Remember This Because Music Used To Get Up To Saskatchewan From Texas. Late At Night After The Local Station Closed Down.

All I Really, Really Want Our Love To Do Is To Bring Out The Best In Me And In You Too.

My Style Of Songwriting Is Influenced By Cinema. I'm A Frustrated Filmmaker. A Fan Once Said To Me, 'girl, You Make Me See Pictures In My Head!' And I Took That As A Great Compliment. That's Exactly My Intention.

Once I Got The Open Tunings For Some Reason, I Began To Get The Harmonic Sophistication That I Heard That My Musical Fountain Inside Was Excited By. Once I Got Some Interesting Chords To Play With, My Writing Began To Come.

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The Coming Of The Kids Hasn't Come Out In My Art Yet.

The Rock & Roll Industry Is Very Incestuous, And We Have All Been Close At One Time Or Another. A Lot Of Beautiful Music And A Lot Of Beautiful Times Came From That. A Lot Of Pain, Too, Because, Inevitably, Different Relationships Broke Up.

Will You Take Me As I Am? Strung Out On Another Man...california, I'm Comin' Home.

Fame Is A Series Of Misunderstandin Gs Surrounding A Name.

I Don't Understand Why Europeans And South Americans Can Take More Sophistication. Why Is It That Americans Need To Hear Their Happiness Major And Their Tragedy Minor, And As Jazzy As They Can Handle Is A Seventh Chord? Are They Not Experiencing Complex Emotions?

I Was Demanding Of Myself A Deeper And Greater Honesty, More And More Revelation In My Work In Order To Give It Back To The People Where It Goes Into Their Lives And Nourishes Them And Changes Their Direction And Makes Light Bulbs Go Off In Their Head And Makes Them Feel. And It Isn't Vague, It Strikes Against The Very Nerves Of Their Life And In Order To Do That You Have To Strike Against The Very Nerves Of Your Own.

Just Before Our Love Got Lost You Said "i Am As Constant As A Northern Star" And I Said, Constantly In The Darkness, Where's That At? If You Want Me I'll Be In The Bar.

I Couldn't See Passion As A Bad Thing.

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So Many Things I Would Have Done, But Clouds Got In My Way.

Edith Piaf Knocked My Socks Off When I Was 8, But I Didn't Know What She Was Singing About.

He's Swept With The Broom Of Contempt And The Rooms Have An Empty Ring.

Rolling Stone Hates Me. They Must Have An Editorial Policy To Do Me In For Many Years.

Love Is A Very Hard Feeling To Keep Alive. It's A Very Fragile Plant.

The Considerations Of A Corporation, Especially Now, Have Nothing To Do With Art Or Music.

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The Pirate He Will Sink You With A Kiss, He'll Steal Your Heart And Sail Away.

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There'll Be Icicles And Birthday Clothes And Sometimes There'll Be Sorrow

When I Think Of Your Kisses My Mind See-saws.

People Used To Say Nobody Can Sing My Songs But Me, They're Too Personal.

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I'm A Little Young For Retirement.

My Name Had Gone Stale, And No Matter How Progressive I Got, It Was My Time To Die.

Something's Lost, But Something's Gained, In Living Everyday.

You Know That It Never Has Been Easy Whether You Do Or Do Not Resign Whether You Travel The Breadth Of The Extremities Or Stick To Some Straighter Line.

Musically, I Don't Think I'd Ever Dry Up. I Trust My Musical Invention.

When You Reach That Kind Of Successful Pinnacle, It Is The Nature Of The Business And The Press And Everything That They Go About Tearing You Down.

An Unhappy Mother Does Not Raise A Happy Child.

The Songwriting Was Almost Like Something I Did While I Was Waiting For My Daughter To Come Back.

Americans Have Decided To Be Stupid And Shallow Since 1980.

Bob [dylan] Is Not Authentic At All. He's A Plagiarist, And His Name And Voice Are Fake. Everything About Bob Is A Deception. We Are Like Night And Day, He And I.

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The Bands And The Roadies, Love 'em And Leave 'em. It's Pleasure To Try 'em, But Trouble To Keep 'em.

Eventually, With Success, I Started To Feel More And More Isolated - Like I Didn't Have A Community Of Artists.

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Richard Got Married To A Figure Skater, And He Bought Her A Dishwasher And A Coffee Percolator.

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Heart And Humor And Humility, He Said Will Lighten Up Your Heavy Load.

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I'm Not A Pitiable Creature. It's Just That I Suffer Very Eloquently.

Applause, Applause, Life Is Our Cause.

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Van Gogh Was Impulsive.

You Wake Up One Day And Suddenly Realize That Your Youth Is Behind You, Even Though You're Still Young At Heart.

Do You See How You Hurt Me, Baby? So I Hurt You Too. Then We Both Get So Blue. I Am On A Lonely Road And I Am Traveling, Looking For The Key To Set Me Free.

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I Loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Anything With Romantic Melodies, Especially The Nocturnes. Nietzsche Was A Hero, Especially With Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He Gets A Bad Rap; Hes Very Misunderstood. Hes A Maker Of Individuals, And He Was A Teacher Of Teachers.

To Enjoy My Music, You Need Depth And Emotionality.

The God Of The Old Testament Is The Depiction Of Evil.

I Live In A Box Of Paints I'm Frightened By The Devil And I'm Drawn To Those Ones That Ain't Afraid

All Romantics Meet The Same Fate Some Day. Drunk And Cynical And Boring Someone In Some Dark Cafe.

They'll Crucify You For Staying The Same, And They'll Crucify You For Change. I'd Rather Be Crucified For Changing.

Bows And Flows Of Angel Hair And Ice Cream Castles In The Air And Feather Canyons Everywhere, I've Looked At Clouds That Way.

Fear Is Like The Wilderland - Stepping Stones Or Sinking Sand

Stepping Stones

I Prefer Christmas, Which Is Everybody's Holiday. It's Just My Nature. I Don't Like To Be Zeroed In On En Masse.

Won't You Stay We'll Put On The Day And We'll Talk In Present Tenses

If You're Smart Or Rich Or Lucky Maybe You'll Beat The Laws Of Man But The Inner Laws Of Spirit And The Outer Laws Of Nature No Man Can

And The Seasons They Go 'round And 'round And The Painted Ponies Go Up And Down We're Captive On The Carousel Of Time We Can't Return We Can Only Look Behind From Where We Came And Go Round And Round And Round In The Circle Game.

Do You Want - Do You Want - Do You Want To Dance With Me Baby?

The Beginning Of Survival Is My Best Album. I Am Very Proud Of It, And I Am Surprised At It, Too. I Thought Some Of Travelogue Was A Little Heavy, But I Don't Think This Is Heavy.

I Do Have This Reputation For Being A Serious Person.

My First Four Albums Covered The Usual Youth Problems - Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places - While The Next Five Are Basically About Being In Your 30s.

The Thing That Gave Me The Most Pain In Life, Psychologically, And It Gave Me Tremendous Pain Psychologically, Is Man's Disrespect For Nature.

White Rhythm Is Waltzes, Marches, And The Polka. In Africa, Rhythm Is Used For A Celebratory Groove, But White Rhythm Doesn't Have Such An Enormous Vocabulary Of Spirits. It's Basically Militant.

All The News Of Home You Read, More About The War And Of Bloody Changes.

There Are Things To Confess That Enrich The World, And Things That Need Not Be Said.

I Was Young For My Age. Not As Naïve As They Expected. I Don't Know Why I Seem To Bring That Out In People.

I Am As Constant As A Northern Star

We're Captive On The Carousel Of Time, We Can't Return We Can Only Look Behind.

You Have This Mounting Aggressive Ignorance With The Rabbit's Foot Of Their Particular Religion. You Don't Really Have Any Kind Of Spiritual Law, Just A Kind Of A Rabid Mental Illness. The Songs Are A Little Slice Of Life.

No One Likes To Have Less Than They Had Before. That's The Nature Of The Human Animal.

In Some Ways, My Gift For Music And Writing Was Born Out Of Tragedy, Really, And Loss.

I Come From Pioneer Stock, Developers Of The West, People Who Went Out Into The Wilderness And Set Up Home With Nothing But A Pair Of Oxen.

I Got In Before Soho Was Soho. It Was Just Little Italy When I Was In There. It's Still Off The Touristy Track. It's Just Away From The Saturday Action, The Crowds And Everything. It's Too Expensive. It's Insane. You've Got To Be A Billionaire To Live On Manhattan Now.

All My Battles Were With Male Egos. I’m Just Looking For Equality, Not To Dominate. But I Want To Be Able To Control My Vision.

I Met A Redneck On A Grecian Isle Who Did The Goat Dance Very Well.

Everybody's Saying Hell's The Hippest Way To Go. Well, I Don't Think So, But I'm Gonna Take A Look Around It Though.

My Individual, Psychological Descent Coincided, Ironically, With My Ascent Into The Public Eye.

I Certainly Don't Want To Be An Angry Old Artist.

Woke Up, It Was A Chelsea Morning, And The First Thing That I Knew There Was Milk And Toast And Honey And A Bowl Of Oranges, Too.

My Goal As A Writer Is More To Comfort Than To Disturb.

Oh, I Am A Lonely Painter / I Live In A Box Of Paints.

I'm A Fine Artist Working In A Commercial Arena, So That's My Cross To Bear

You Know, Neil Young Is Singing Rock N' Roll Will Never Die, And Neil Never Rocked And Rolled In His Life. I Mean, He Rocked, But He Didn't Roll. He Has Got No Swing In Him.

Laughing And Crying, You Know It's The Same Release.

I'm Drinking Champagne, Got The Head Phones Up High, Can't Numb You Out.

I Believe That I Am Male And I Am Female.

Keep A Good Heart. That's The Most Important Thing In Life. It's Not How Much Money You Make Or What You Can Acquire. The Art Of It Is To Keep A Good Heart.

Morgellons Is Constantly Morphing. There Are Times When It's Directly Attacking The Nervous System, As If You're Being Bitten By Fleas And Lice. It's All In The Tissue And It's Not A Hallucination. It Was Eating Me Alive, Sucking The Juices Out. I've Been Sick All My Life.

I Hate Show Business.

I Like My Freedom. I Like To Do My Own Grocery Shopping.

Grocery Shopping

Tears And Fears And Feeling Proud To Say I Love You, Right Out Loud Dreams And Schemes And Circus Crowds I've Looked At Life That Way. But Now Old Friends Are Acting Strange They Shake Their Heads, They Say I've Changed Something's Lost, But Something's Gained In Living Every Day I've Looked At Life From Both Sides Now From Win And Lose, And Still Somehow It's Life's Illusions I Recall I Really Don't Know Life At All

You Dont Know What You Got Till Its Gone

I Thrive On Change. That's Probably Why My Chord Changes Are Weird, Because Chords Depict Emotions. They'll Be Going Along On One Key And I'll Drop Off A Cliff, And Suddenly They Will Go Into A Whole Other Key Signature. That Will Drive Some People Crazy, But That's How My Life Is.

I Have Always Thought Of Myself As A Painter Derailed By Circumstance.

But Now It's Just Another Show, You Leave Em Laughing When You Go. And If You Care, Don't Let Them Know, Don't Give Yourself Away.

Lord, There's Danger In This Land, You Get Witch Hunts And Wars When Church And State Hold Hands.

Buddy Holly And The Early Rock 'n' Roll Was No Lighter Than The Way I Play. It's Very Minimal.

Nobody Understood The Reoccurring Dream, But After September 11, When We Were Coerced To Do A National Duty And Go Out And Shop, Surely People Could Begin To See What I Was Getting At.

They Used To Laugh At Me When I Refused To Ride On All Those Double Decker Buses, All Because There Was No Driver On The Top.

My Heart Is Broken In The Face Of The Stupidity Of My Species.

I Conceived In Art College At The Age Of 20, Near The End Of Term.

I Came Through Folk Music Simply Because It Was Easy To Get Into It.

Abstract Expressionism Was Invented By New York Drunks.

Unlike Some Of My Peers, I Haven't Really Hit A Writer's Block. When I Hit A Block I Just Paint, Which Is An Old Crop Rotation Trick.

Fibers In A Variety Of Colors Protrude Out Of My Skin Like Mushrooms After A Rainstorm. They Cannot Be Forensically Identified As Animal, Vegetable Or Mineral.

It's Life's Illusions That I Recall, I Really Don't Know Life At All

People Will Tell You Were They Have Gone, They'll Tell You Where To Go, But Until You Get There For Yourself You Never Really Know.

I'm Not A Kiss-and-teller. I Never Named Names.

My Life Came Down To Being A Granny And Watching A Lot Of Television.

I Still Believe In The Power Of The Word, That Words Inspire.

When I Came To California, It Was The Mecca Of The World. Every Young Person On The Planet Wanted To Be Here.

A Few Drinks Later You're Not So Choosy When The Closing Lights Strip Off The Shadows On This Strange New Flesh You've Found.

They Won't Give Peace A Chance, That's Just A Dream Some Of Us Had

We Love Our Lovin'....but Not Like We Love Our Freedom.

My Husband Had An Education. He Had A Degree In Literature. I Married Into A Camp Of Literary Types.

The Times You Impress Me The Most Are The Times When You Don't Try.

She'll Prophesy Your Death. She Won't Say When.

He Saw My Complications And He Mirrored Me Back Simplified, And We Laughed How Our Perfect World Would Always Be Denied.

It's In My Stars To Invent; I Was Born On Madame Curie's Birthday. I Have This Need For Originals, For Innovation. That's Why I Like Charlie Parker.

I Don't Know Who I Am But You Know, Life Is For Learning.

Knowing Who You Are

With A Painting, You Don't Have To Go Back And Paint It Again.

I Could Drink A Case Of You, Darlin'...and I Would Still Be On My Feet, Yes I Would Still Be On My Feet.

What I Do Is Unusual: Chordal Movements That Have Never Been Used Before, Changing Keys And Modalities Mid-song.

You Can Give Me 400,000 Hostile People And I Won't Even Break Sweat. If You Give Me 200 Adoring People, My Mouth Will Dry Out.

In Terms Of Fiction, I'd Rather Go Out And Have A Good Time Than Read A Book About Someone Having A Good Or Bad Time.

I Wrote 'big Yellow Taxi' On My First Trip To Hawaii. I Took A Taxi To The Hotel And When I Woke Up The Next Morning, I Threw Back The Curtains And Saw These Beautiful Green Mountains In The Distance. Then, I Looked Down And There Was A Parking Lot As Far As The Eye Could See, And It Broke My Heart This Blight On Paradise. That's When I Sat Down And Wrote The Song.

I Learned From Admiration And Osmosis.

I Love You When I Forget About Me.

I Can't Remember Anything I Ever Wrote.

When I Felt That Fame - People Were Nosing Me Out - Well, I Moved On. I Used Traveling Names; Wigs If Necessary.

I Find A Lot Of Poetry To Be Narcissistic.

The Most Important Thing Is To Write In Your Own Blood. I Bare Intimate Feelings Because People Should Know How Other People Feel.

Happiness Is The Best Facelift.

I Dreamed I Saw The Bombers Riding Shot Gun In The Sky And They Were Turning Into Butterflies Above Our Nation.

That's One Thing That's Always, Like, Been A Difference Between, Like, The Performing Arts, And Being A Painter, You Know. A Painter Does A Painting, And He Paints It, And That's It, You Know. He Has The Joy Of Creating It, It Hangs On A Wall, And Somebody Buys It, And Maybe Somebody Buys It Again, Or Maybe Nobody Buys It And It Sits Up In A Loft Somewhere Until He Dies. But He Never, You Know, Nobody Ever, Nobody Ever Said To Van Gogh, 'paint A Starry Night Again, Man!' You Know? He Painted It And That Was It.

I Hang My Laundry On The Line When I Write.

At The Point Where I'm Trying To Force Something And It's Not Happening, And I'm Getting Frustrated With, Say, Writing A Poem, I Can Go And Pick Up The Brushes And Start Painting. At The Point Where The Painting Seems To Not Be Going Anywhere, I Go And Pick Up The Guitar.

But Now Old Friends Are Acting Strange They Shake Their Heads, They Say I've Changed Well Something's Lost, But Something's Gained In Living Every Day

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If I'm Censoring For Anyone, It's For My Parents. They Are Very Old-fashioned And Moral People. They Still Don't Understand Me That Well.

I Didn't Think I Had Much Of A Following In The South. I Thought I Was Anonymous Down There So I Kept To The South. But I Found In Certain Pockets That I Was Quite Recognizable And I Just Hit A Wig Store.

You Win The Lasting Laurels With Your Laughter.

I Get The Urge For Going/but I Never Seem To Go.

Don't It Always Seem To Go, That You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone.

Human Condition

Daydreamin' Drugs The Pain Of Living.

When You're Trying To Pass On The Best Of The Stuff You're Culling To What Should Be A Hungry Culture But You Have It Diminished... That's Kind Of Disappointing.

We'll Laugh And Toast To Nothing, And Smash Our Empty Glasses Down.

I Learned A Woman Is Never An Old Woman.

They Took All The Trees And Put Them In A Tree Museum.

Depression Can Be The Sand That Makes The Pearl. Most Of My Best Work Came Out Of It.

I Don't Like Being Too Looked Up At Or Too Looked Down On. I Prefer Meeting In The Middle To Being Worshipped Or Spat Out.

My Childhood Was Very Difficult. I Had Every Childhood Disease And Then Some, But My Parents Didnt Mollycoddle Me. They Left Me To Fight Those Battles On My Own. I Guess That Was Very Canadian, Very Stoic. But Its Good. I Had To Become A Warrior. I Had To Give Up Hope And Find A Substitute For Hope That Would Be Far More Stable.

I Have An Aversion To Being Mislabeled. Here's A Label I'd Accept: I'm An 'individual.' I'm Someone Who Can't Follow, And Doesn't Want To Lead.

Rationally I Have No Hope, Irrationally I Believe In Miracles.

Elusive Dreams And Vague Desires Fanned To Fiery Needs By Deadly Deeds Of Falling Empires.

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