For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

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.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

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.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

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.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

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'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

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.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

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.

I don't kid around.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

I don't see music as working.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

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.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.