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

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...

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 know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

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.

She’s been everybody else’s girl maybe one day she’ll be her own.

Everybody told me this ‘girl on the piano’ thing was never going to work.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I’m not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that.

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.

I’m driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

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...

It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon...

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

Music is always a reflection of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

So the first job that I got – my father got it for me – he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry’s of Georgetown.

You can’t control your popularity; I know I’m an acquired taste – I’m anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. If I was potato chips, I could go a lot more places, but...

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 remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom’s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the...

I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

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.

Years go by will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand… sometimes I hear my voice and it’s been here, silent all these years…

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

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

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...

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they’re overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I’m not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you, how can I when you build a great wall around you.

I’m not like a poker player. I’m not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I’m intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

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

I’ve got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I’d like even more.

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

Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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