Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

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.

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 have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?

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,...

Give me peace, love, peace, love, give me peace, love, and a hard cock

I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.

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

If you think a child is going to be your accessory… it’s not like a micro pig. It’s not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

You know that saying, bad things don ‘ t happen to good people?. That ‘ s a lie.

Never was a cornflake girl;Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

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

I’ve been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don’t want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

There’s a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can’t write. It’s a big business.

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

The pop world has really opened its doors.

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...

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

Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.

I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are...

You know that saying, bad things dont happen to good people?. Thats a lie.

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

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

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.

It’s fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn’t give her power.

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

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.

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

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

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

It’s as if the horses have come to take us back, to descend, to find the dark side. By dark I mean what’s hidden, not necessarily satanic.

There is an energy that you carry when you’re nurturing another life where you’re protecting first – and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter’s gun, you can be...

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...

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the ’60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.

I like cosy, intimate houses.

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...

If mankind recognizes that war is impossible…that all national rivalries are foolish…if they get together any kind of an extension of detente… then we may pull out of it all the better for it.

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

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

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.

My childhood was extreme.

Anger is natural. It’s part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

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

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.