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Sometimes You Need To Take A Departure From What You Do To Something That's Slightly Different In Order To Get Inspiration.

I Think You Have To Know Who You Are. Get To Know The Monster That Lives In Your Soul, Dive Deep Into Your Soul And Explore It.

I've Carved Out A Career For Myself Really As A Writer.

I Found The Secret To Life: I'm Ok When Everything Is Not Ok.

People Listen To Music The Way They Want To Listen To Music.

You'd Think That In This Age, Especially In The 21st Century - Especially With All The Technology And All The Discoveries That We've Made - That We Would Figure Out How To Tackle Abuse.

When Interviews Are Good, The Conversation Can Be Amazing. Sometimes I've Had Conversations With Journalists That I've Never Had With Anybody Else.

Some Of The Most Wonderful People Are The Ones Who Don't Fit Into Boxes.

In Real Life I'm Bone Dry And When I Play I'm A Mango And In Sex I'm Starving To Be A Dripping Mango

My Brother Was A Fantastic Cheerleader For My Development As A Musician. He Was Almost 10 Years Older Than Me And Would Really Push Me To Develop As A Songwriter.

I Don't Know What A Shrink Would Call Me. I Don't Want To Know.

Healing For Me Is Being Able To Sit Next To The Butcher And Say 'yes, I’m Sitting Next To The Butcher Now,' Instead Of Saying 'there Is No Butcher'.

In Our Minds, Love And Lust Are Really Separated. It's Hard To Find Someone That Can Be Kind And You Can Trust Enough To Leave Your Kids With, And Isn't Afraid To Throw Her Man Up Against The Wall And Lick Him From Head To Toe.

I Have Never Smoked And Have Always Drunk A Lot Of Water, But Cleanse, Tone And Moisturise Every Day? No Way!

I Wanted To Marry Lucifer. I Feel His Presence In My Music.

What Do You Plan To Do With All Your Freedom?

I'm A Grown Woman. I've Earned My Experiences, My Scars.

If You Are A Nurturing Mother, And A Good One, You Can Go To Play Groups, Sit On The Floor And Play All The Games, And Have Tea With The Other Mothers, But Wouldn't You Like To Think That's Not All There Is? That You Haven't Hung Up Your High Heels Without Knowing How To Walk In Them?

My Fear Is Greater Than My Faith, But I Walk The Missionary Way.

Operation Peter Pan Spanned From 1960-62 Whereby Over 14,000 Children Were Sent Away From Their Families In Cuba, Some Never To Reunite Again. Pan Am Flights Took The Children To Miami Fl, 'never-never Land', And The Children Became Known As The 'peter Pans.' I Wrote This Song For My Daughter, And It Is Sung For All The Daughters And Mothers, Fathers And Brothers Who Felt This Pain Of Separation All Because Of Governments And Their Politics.

If I Was Writing Songs Just For Me I'd Only Play Them In My Living Room, Alone.

If You're A Lame Brain, Then You're A Lame Brain. I Can't Help That.

I Felt Sidelined By The Industry, By The Preoccupation With Finding Something Newer, Younger.

Take A Different Route To The Coffee Shop To See What You Can See And Hear. When We Get In A Routine, We Can Become Zombie-like And Shut Down. It's About Discipline. You Have To Push Yourself.

Parenting Is Not For Everybody. It Changes Your Life. Especially When They're Little.

Changing Your Life

The Music Industry Is A Vicious Business. It Chews Women Up And Spits Them Out.

I'm The Queen Of The Nerds.

I Don't Choose To Analyze What I Have Done And I Think That Is The Right Choice, Because Then I Won't Be Spending My Time Creating.

What Do You Plan To Do With All Your Freedom?

So Then I Though I'd Make Some Plans, But Fire Thought She'd Really Rather Be Water Instead.

Well, I Have A Lot Of Food References In My Work.

There Are Two Ways To Wake Up. You Can Wake Up Thinking About What You Know, Or You Wake Up Thinking And Saying 'what Can I Learn?.' That's A Very Different Approach.

It's About Realizing, Painfully, You've Kept That Voice Inside Yourself, Locked Away From Even Yourself. And You Step Back And See That Your Jailer Has Changed Faces. You Realize You've Become Your Own Jailer.

I'm Not Very Social When I'm Off The Promo Trail, Because I Step Into Wife And Mother Mode. It's Very Reclusive.

I'm Obsessed With Crocodiles And Getting Eaten By One. When I Hear That Someone's Been Eaten By A Crocodile Or Shark, I Just Get All Gooey. I Start Salivating.

There Are Older Men With Younger Women But You Don't See A Lot Of Older Women With Younger Men. There Are Some Women Who Have Been Able To Do It But Not Often.

Me And Charles Manson Like The Same Ice Cream.

Our Generation Has An Incredible Amount Of Realism, Yet At The Same Time It Loves To Complain And Not Really Change. Because, If It Does Change, Then It Won't Have Anything To Complain About.

I Really Really Love Christ, But I'm Not A Christian.

I Like Involved Projects.

I'm A Musician First, A Food-lover Second, A Dirty Mouth With Feet, And A Girl Last Time I Checked.

There's A Richness To The Old Works If You Look Before The 1950s. The Chord Progressions And The Language Was More Complicated, Especially In The Jazz And Classical World.

I Usually Get Myself Into Situations That Cause Sparks. I Mean I'm A Girl That Likes The Storms. I Love Feeling Alive, I Love Walking Out In The Cold In My Bare Feet And Feeling The Ice On My Toes.

The Way I See It, The Men That I'm With, Whoever They Are, It's Like Look, You Have To Accept The Fact That I Like Ice Cream, And I Know It Shows Up On My Hips But If You Can't Accept That, Then Leave. Go Away, Toodles. It Is Non-negotiable.

My Grandmother Really Liked Virgins. There's Nothing Wrong With Virgins, There's A Time And A Place For That. I Had Other Things On My Mind... Like Robert Plant.

I Am Finding That Vulnerability Gives Me Great Strength, Because You're Not Hiding Anymore. It's Really About Being A Pioneer For Myself, Going Into The Places Where I Am Not Being Taught. I Have To Teach Myself.

I Have So Many Different Personalities In Me And I Still Feel Lonely.

Like Being Alone

I Call That God The Little G. Because The God That We've Been Worshipping Is Not To Me The Supreme Creator. Anybody Who Needs To Control And Make People Feel Ashamed. . .it's Like, 'i Send My Only Begotten Son. . .' Well You Know, That Concept Of Sending A Son Where We As Women Could, Like, Breastfeed Him And Give Him Milk, But He's Not Gonna Soil His Dinky With Us? What's That All About?

My Favorite Saying Is, 'if It's Too Loud, Turn It Up.'

When I Play Live, It's A Conversation That We're All Having With The Song, And The Audience... Their Response And Relationship With The Songs Is As Valid As My Relationship With The Songs.

That's The Thing About Letting Old Lovers Go. You Don't Stop Loving Some Of Them. There Are A Couple You Love No Less Than You Ever Did. Not To Mention Namesbut I'm Still In Love With A Couple. You're Not Going To Try And Make It Work Again, But If They Needed You, You'd Drop Everything.

I Believe In Rainbows And All Of That. But There Are Darker Colors And It's The Shade That Defines The Light.

My Ears Are Huge. If There's Ever A Problem With A Plane I'm On, They Could Just Put Me On The Wing And I'll Land The Sucker.

I'm Too Wacky For Most Weirdos. Who Am I To Judge?

I Think You Have To Know Who You Are. Get To Know The Monster That Lives In Your Soul, Dive Deep Into Your Soul And Explore It.

I Get Painted Quite A Bit As A Tragic Figure Because Of Some Of The Stuff That's Happened In My Life.

Being Able To Still Make Records Is A Privilege. I Don't Take It Casually.

These Precious Things, Let Them Bleed.

Precious Things

There Are Quite A Few Very Funny People In My Life. You Know Those People Who Don't Mean To Be Funny, They Just Come Out With These Zingers That Just Make You Howl With Laughter. Usually You Find These People In The Road Crew. A Good Crew Is A Key To A Healthy Funny Bone.

When I Am Able To Be Present, Listening - Really Listening - To A Viewpoint Described Through Someone Else's Lens, I Am Here In The Now And Alive.

I Don't Allow Challenges To Trip Me Up.

The Word 'confession,' To Me, Means Needing To Be Absolved. I'm Not Asking For Forgiveness. I'm Not Asking People To Understand. I'd Like To Think That I Tell Stories And Sometimes My Life Weaves Through It.

The Truth Lies In Between The 1st And The 40th Drink

It's Not As If The Stories Merge To A Point Where You Think They Are Your Life, But You Do Let Them In The Front Door And The Back Door, And It's Okay That Sometimes Certain Characters Stay For Dinner.

I Think Even In A Good Marriage, Especially If You Stay Together Long Enough, There Are Going To Be Events That Happen.

There Are Ways To Stimulate Being Prolific, And Part Of That Is Making Pilgrimages, And Being Open To Listening, Changing Up The Routine.

Sometimes I Hear My Voice And It's Been Here, Silent All These Years

I Was Fascinated To Think About A Place Where Men Could Be The Mothers And I Thought Of My Own Song-writing And I Decided To Have A Relationship With Their Daughters.

Life Is Fleeting. It Is To Be Enjoyed.

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I'm Not Somebody That Gets Played A Lot At Parties And Weddings. I Mean, You Know, You Mention My Name And You Get An Eye Roll, Until, Of Course, You're Jumping Off A Bridge.

I'm A Winter Girl. I Like Coming Out When Things Are Desolate And Everybody's Ready To Slit Their Wrists.

To Heal The Wound, You Have To Go Into The Dark Night Of The Soul.

When I Play Live, It's A Conversation That We're All Having With The Song, And The Audience... Their Response And Relationship With The Songs Is As Valid As My Relationship With The Songs.

Father Lucifer, You Never Looked So Sane.

I Used To Get Really Pissed Off That My Life Was So Dictated By When This Jesus Guy Was Born And When He Was Dying Every Year. I Felt Really Resentful That I Couldn't Get On With My Own Life Because I Was So Busy With His.

My Father Was A Minister And So Rock Music Was Banned In Our House.

Romance Is Important To Me, And To Have A Romance With Your Husband Takes A Bit Of Doing. The Key Is To Make Sure Your Partner Misses You. That Means You Have To Take Yourself Away.

It's [a Miscarriage] All Very Thief-in-the-night. No One Really Knows What To Say. You Go Into The Emergency Room, You Think You're Going To Be A Mum And You Walk Out Empty. It's All Neat And Tidy, There's This Potential Being In Your Life And You're Empty - All Cleaned Up And Put Back Together, But Completely Shattered.

I Gave Up Trying To Please Others And Started Playing For Myself, And Because I Love Music, Things Naturally Happened Then. Funny How That Works.

I Usually Get Myself Into Situations That Cause Sparks. I Mean I'm A Girl That Likes The Storms. I Love Feeling Alive, I Love Walking Out In The Cold In My Bare Feet And Feeling The Ice On My Toes.

In Real Life I'm Bone Dry And When I Play I'm A Mango And In Sex I'm Starving To Be A Dripping Mango

There Were Times That I Needed To Go To Battle, But How I Went To Battle Wasn't Always The Best Way In.

I Think That The Nightmares Are Telling Me Things About Myself That I Need To Know. And I Try To Understand What They Mean, So I Can Get To Know Something More About My Soul.

I'm Not Somebody That Gets Played A Lot At Parties And Weddings. I Mean, You Know, You Mention My Name And You Get An Eye Roll, Until, Of Course, You're Jumping Off A Bridge.

I Think Having A Child Can Really Change You If You're Open To It.

You Don't Have To Justify Everything. Being Pissed Off Is Just Absolutely Okay.

You Don't Leave People Who Can't Defend Themselves.

I'm A Hard Worker. I Get My Hands Dirty.

Over The Last Few Hours I've Allowed Myself To Feel Defeated, And Just Like She Said If You Allow Yourself To Feel The Way You Really Feel, Maybe You Won't Be Afraid Of That Feeling Anymore.

I Can't Have Discussions About It Anymore, I Just Can't. When Someone Asks Me If I've Found Jesus, I Say, 'yeah, I Saw Him At A Nirvana Concert A Couple Of Years Ago.' It's Like, Jesus Has Got Things To Do, He's Got A Ten O'clock. He's Not Going To Fix Things For Me, I Have To Fix Things For Myself, So I Try And Have A Sense Of Humor About It And Nobody Finds My Humor Very Amusing. We've Just Got To Lighten Up On The Savior Bit, Folks. You Know, Get Off The Cross, We Need The Wood.

I Think That The Nightmares Are Telling Me Things About Myself That I Need To Know. And I Try To Understand What They Mean, So I Can Get To Know Something More About My Soul.

You Know That Saying, Bad Things Don't Happen To Good People? That's A Lie.

Womanhood Is A Whole Different Thing From Girlhood. Girlhood Is A Gift...womanhood Is A Choice.

Everybody Told Me This 'girl On The Piano' Thing Was Never Going To Work.

You're Just An Empty Cage Girl, If You Kill The Bird.

The Violence Betwen Women Is Unbelievable. Women Try To Make Each Other Crawl So That Their Knees Are Bleeding.

In Our Minds, Love And Lust Are Really Separated. It's Hard To Find Someone That Can Be Kind And You Can Trust Enough To Leave Your Kids With, And Isn't Afraid To Throw Her Man Up Against The Wall And Lick Him From Head To Toe.

I Just Hand Shoes On The Wall. They're Architecture You Know.

I'm The Queen Of The Nerds.

Life Is Fleeting. It Is To Be Enjoyed.

What I Want Is Not To Want What Isn't Mine

Getting People To Go Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty Can Be Achieved But Only If You, The Artist, Are Willing To Go Above And Beyond Any And All Calls Of Duty Yourself.

Press The Button, Pump The Water, Build The Pressure, Push The Piston, Press The Button. It's The Perfect Job.

I Collect Art Books. I Have Hundreds And Hundreds Of Them And They Get Me To Start Hearing Things. Sometimes People Look At Them, But I Find That Visual Art Gets Me Listening, Gets Me Hearing Things.

There Are Enough Scary Rock & Roll Mothers In The World.

I Don't Want To Give Too Much Ink To Foolish Men.

If You Call Me A New-age, Airy-fairy, Hippie-dippy Airhead I Will Shove My Crystals Up Your Ass.

To Me Happiness, True Happiness Is When You Can Really Dance With Sad.

To Me Happiness, True Happiness Is When You Can Really Dance With Sad.

You Know When People Smile Too Much? It's Painful. I Find It Really Painful. Happy Is Not Very Reliable. I'm Trying To Live Like, Um, With A Fierce Calm.

Not Being Afraid To Make Changes Is A Valuable Tool - Knowing You Can Change Back.

Being Able To Hear An Opinion. And Then How To Apply That Opinion Is Something I Am Learning And Working With Every Day. What Can Be Tricky Is How To Differentiate A Good Suggestion That You Should Apply To Your Work [from] Someone's Personal Taste At Their Opinionated Best.

I Get Tired Of Wearing The Same Thing All The Time Too.

I Was Two And A Half When I First Climbed Up And Sat At A Piano.

The Music Is The Magic Carpet That Other Things Take Naps On.

I'm Very At Home Working With Mythology.

Musically, I Always Allow Myself To Jump Off Of Cliffs. At Least That's What It Feels Like To Me. Whether That's What It Actually Sounds Like Might Depend On What The Listener Brings To The Songs.

God Sometimes You Just Don't Come Through, Do You Need A Woman To Look After You?

There Is A Phenomenal Amount Of Pressure On Women In This Industry: They Are Considered Vintage By The Time They Hit Their Mid-30s.

And My Saab Is So Great I'm Gonna Marry It.

Being Stylish Is About Enjoying Your Life And Expressing Yourself And Your Inner Light.

Express Yourself

My Father Has A Pragmatic Mind. He Marched With Dr King In The 60s, And He's Very Much For Women's Rights.

I Don't See Myself As Weird, I Just See Myself As Honest.

In My New Life, No Room For A Lost Boy.

Boys Are Cute, But Food Is Cuter

I Hurt Myself Today To See If I Could Feel. I Hurt Myself, You Said To Try To Make Him Feel. So I Hurt Myself Again To See If He'd See Me. I Hurt Myself Again And No, He Never Could See Me.

Men Have Periods Too, They Just Don't Bleed.

Over The Last Few Hours I've Allowed Myself To Feel Defeated, And Just Like She Said If You Allow Yourself To Feel The Way You Really Feel, Maybe You Won't Be Afraid Of That Feeling Anymore.

You Don't Have To Justify Everything. Being Pissed Off Is Just Absolutely Okay.

We All Get Intimidated By Showing Ourselves, For Whatever Reason, We Think, If I Really Show Who I Am, And Someone Goes [pfftt] Then It's Gonna Crush Me. Well, It's Not Gonna Crush Me. It Doesn't Crush You If Somebody Does That- Somebody Will Do That. Many Times. And Once You Accept That That's Not Why You're Doing It, You're Doing It Because That's Your Form Of Expression.

If You Sing To The Mermaids, They Come When You're Drowning.

Operation Peter Pan Spanned From 1960-62 Whereby Over 14,000 Children Were Sent Away From Their Families In Cuba, Some Never To Reunite Again. Pan Am Flights Took The Children To Miami Fl, 'never-never Land', And The Children Became Known As The 'peter Pans.' I Wrote This Song For My Daughter, And It Is Sung For All The Daughters And Mothers, Fathers And Brothers Who Felt This Pain Of Separation All Because Of Governments And Their Politics.

If You Can't Create Physical Life, You Find A Life Force. If That's In Music, That's In Music. I Started To Find This Deep, Primitive Rhythm, And I Started To Move To It. And I Held Hands With Sorrow, And I Danced With Her, And We Giggled A Bit.

There Certainly Are Situations Where I Feel Not Empowered Or Uninspired. Particularly When The Person's Agenda Is To Intimidate Through Abusing Their Position Or Their Authority. When I Am Present And In A Nonreactive State, Then I Can Become Like Snake And Slide Through Their "intimidation Net" Back Into The Creative Plane. When I Am In A Reactive State, I Usually Regret Responding, Because Usually All That Happens Is That The Intimidator Feels Righteously Vindicated.

Most People Would Rather Be Sheep Than Stand On Their Own With Antlers On.

Strange, I Thought I Knew You Well, Thought I Had Read The Sky, Thought I Had Seen A Change In Your Eyes.

I'm A Conduit For Telling People's Stories. It's A Privilege.

Is There Room In My Heart For You To Follow Your Heart?

Follow Your Heart

Haze All Clouding Up In My Mind In The Daze Of The Why It Could've Never Been.

Let's Be Honest. You Let Yourself Be Pulled In Because It Felt Good To Be Wanted, Needed. But Then It Went Too Far, As Projected Images Always Do. If It's Not A Real Image, But One That Has Been Projected On To You, Then You Can Keep Up The Masquerade For Only So Long Before The Mask Cracks And The Paint On The Mask Peels Away.

I Wanna Smash The Faces Of Those Beautiful Boys, Those Christian Boys.

The Violence Betwen Women Is Unbelievable. Women Try To Make Each Other Crawl So That Their Knees Are Bleeding.

I Became A Mom At 37 And Having A Child Has Been An Emancipation For Me.

I've Got Tonnes Of Aboriginal And Native American Art, But I'd Like Even More.

Native American

We Can All Choose To Become Our Potential, Not Just Talk About It Or Dream About It. But Daily, Make A Shift Whereby We Begin Living And Being Our Potential. With Each Day, That Potential Can Expand Because We Are Open To Learning Something Every Day.

Sometimes You Are Forced To Defend Your Beliefs. Sometimes You Are Forced To Look At Relationships That Aren't Positive Anymore. There Are Times When I Have Had To Make Peace With The Fact That I Am At War. And Sometimes You Have To Fight Those Who Do Not Want Love To Conquer All.

If You Don't Think, And You Have No Wit And You Have So Many Hangups That You Can't Look Beyond Your Cup Of Coffee Then You're Never Going To Understand What I'm Really Saying. Because You Know What? You're Going To Shut Down And Close Off Before You Hear Me. If I'm Threatening You, You're Going To See It The Way You Need To See It So You Can Dismiss Me.

Boys Are Cute, But Food Is Cuter

I Think Doing Variations On A Classical Theme Is A Dangerous Thing To Do.

You Don't Leave People Who Can't Defend Themselves.

We All Must Develop A Grounded Clarity For Ourselves.

I Salute To You Commander And I Sneeze 'cause I Have Now An Allergy To Your Policies It Seems Where Have We Gone Wrong America? Mr. Lincoln We Can't Seem To Find You Anywhere Out Of The Millions From The Deserts To The Mountains Over Prairies To The Shores Is This Just The Madness Of King George Yo George Is This Just The Madness Of King George Yo George Well You Have The Whole Nation On All Fours.

I Think Everyone Understands Grief, The Journey It Takes Us On, Whether It's The Death Of A Loved One, The End Of A Relationship, A Disappointment. Some People Don't Deal With It, The Power Of It. Some Do. Some Feel The Weight Of It And It Informs Their Choices. I've Had To Open Up To Grief In Different Contexts.

You're Just An Empty Cage Girl, If You Kill The Bird.

I Find That In The 21st Century, There's Not A Lot Of Compassion For What Other People Are Going Through Or The Walk That They Have To Walk.

You Can Be Self-empowered And Still Learning About How You Think About Things Daily.

This Whole Christian Theology Thing Is That God Came Down To Experience Life Through His Son. Well, How's He Experiencing Life If He Doesn't Get Laid? Give Me A Break. And Why Would He Not Get Laid, As He Created The Apparatus In The First Place?

I Love The Classic Crooners, But I Got That From My Mother - She Worked In A Record Store.

My Mother Says I Was Two-and-a-half When I Started Playing. My Father Was A Minister, And When He Went To Church In The Morning, She Would Put On Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole And Cole Porter Records. I'd Crawl Up On The Piano Stool, Sit On A Phone Book And Play.

I Love The Classic Crooners, But I Got That From My Mother - She Worked In A Record Store.

And Is It Right, Butterfly, They Like You Better Framed And Dried?

When I Was Little, My Mom Tells Me, I Used To Say Things Like, 'mom Do You Hear The String Section? Do You Hear The String Section?' And She Would Look At Me And Say, 'no Honey, I Don't Know What You're Talking About.'

Romance Is Important To Me, And To Have A Romance With Your Husband Takes A Bit Of Doing. The Key Is To Make Sure Your Partner Misses You. That Means You Have To Take Yourself Away.

I Was Very Close To My Mother As The Youngest Of Three. She Was My Playmate.

Sometimes Those Demons Are Frightening And Sometimes They're Beautiful.

Dance With The Sufis, Celebrate Your Top Ten In The Charts Of Pain.

I Had A Very Strict Upbringing With My Dad And Was Very Close To My Mum, Who Was Extremely Loving.

People Can Travel Great Distances On A Computer, So Why Can't We Travel That Way Emotionally?

If You Really Want A Challenge, Just Deal With Yourself.

Though I Can't Change What Happened, I Can Choose How To React. And I Don't Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Being Bitter And Locked Up.

There Certainly Are Situations Where I Feel Not Empowered Or Uninspired. Particularly When The Person's Agenda Is To Intimidate Through Abusing Their Position Or Their Authority. When I Am Present And In A Nonreactive State, Then I Can Become Like Snake And Slide Through Their "intimidation Net" Back Into The Creative Plane. When I Am In A Reactive State, I Usually Regret Responding, Because Usually All That Happens Is That The Intimidator Feels Righteously Vindicated.

Sometimes It Seems Like We're Closer To Our Manicurists Than We Are Our Own Souls. We Have To Find Ways To Get In Touch With That And To Listen To It And To Hear It.

Years Go By Will I Still Be Waiting For Somebody Else To Understand Years Go By If I'm Stripped Of My Beauty And The Orange Clouds Raining In Head Years Go By Will I Choke On My Tears Till Finally There Is Nothing Left One More Casualty You Know We're Too Easy Easy Easy

An Angel's Face Is Tricky To Wear Constantly.

What I Want Is Not To Want What Isn't Mine

Sometimes It Seems Like We're Closer To Our Manicurists Than We Are Our Own Souls. We Have To Find Ways To Get In Touch With That And To Listen To It And To Hear It.

I Think All The Boys That Write The Screaming Stuff Would Write The Best Love Songs... Because They Have The Most To Hide. The Guys That Are In The Most Pain Are Usually The Ones With The Biggest Hearts.

You Decide Whether You Look At Your Reality Or Live Pretending These Feelings Don't Exist.

I See The Dream And I See The Nightmare, And I Believe You Can't Have The Dream Without The Nightmare.

The Key Things Are About Power And About Growing Up And Realizing As You Grow Up That There Are Consequences For The Choices You Make, Especially When You Get Seduced By Power.

I Get Tired Of Wearing The Same Thing All The Time Too.

I Don't Own A Computer. I Have A Nine-foot Piano In My Home To Compose My Messages. Why Would I Want A One-foot Computer To Do The Same Thing?

Anything A Wife Should Do, I'm Terrible At. Anything A Mistress Should Do, I'll Try.

Some Of The Most Wonderful People Are The Ones Who Don't Fit Into Boxes.

I Don't See Myself As Weird, I Just See Myself As Honest.

I Think That Other People Covering My Work Is Really Exciting... Im Really Open To That Kind Of Thing Because I Think Interpretation Is An Art Form.

I Really Really Love Christ, But I'm Not A Christian.

There's A Sea Secret In Me / It's Plain To See It Is Rising / But I Must Be Flowing Liquid Diamonds / Calling For My Soul / At The Corners Of The World

The Most Important Thing To Me As A Songwriter Is The Breath. The Most Important Thing I Could Say To Somebody Is, 'sometimes I Just Breathe You In.'

When You're In Your 20s, There's Maybe A Little Room For You To Not Be At The Top Of Your Artistic Game, If You Look Good On A Magazine Cover. When You're Not On The Cover Of The Magazines Anymore, Then You Realize That The Work Has To Be Great.

I'm Trying Not To Move, It's Just Your Ghost Passing Through

Girls You've Gotta Know When It's Time To Turn The Page.

I Do Believe That We All Are, Fundamentally, Divided Creatures. Emotions Split From Intellect, Spirit From Flesh And Far Too Often Sexuality Is Disconnected From What We Feel, And Are, As Total Human Beings. But How, For Example, Can Anyone Have An Understanding Of The Virgin If They Don't Also Have An Understanding Of The Prostitute, The Saint And Sinner In One Body?

God Sometimes You Just Don't Come Through, Do You Need A Woman To Look After You?

I'm Too Young For A Man, But I'm Too Old For A Boy. So, Can't We Just Pretend, That I'm Older Than I Really Am, But Then, Only Little Girls Pretend.

Cornwall Is One Of The Most Beautiful Places, With Great People - There's Not A Great Downside To It.

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