For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

No lies, just love.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and… disposable.

A ballad once in a while doesn’t go amiss.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it’s hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I...

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there’s a point where I wish that it wasn’t, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less...

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we’d just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around...

I didn’t know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I’m not a big fan of Women’s Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they’re due.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not...

I’ve been compared to people since the beginning. When you’re starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

But the teacher would let me sing, you know. She’d take me around to different classes and let me sing. And I could sing without stuttering.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

I use dropped D quite often and open G and open E sometimes. And sometimes I make up things, like dropping the G string down a step.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss...

I’m trying to have my own thing, and I don’t know if it’s even possible. I didn’t realize so many people actually think I’m trying to be like my dad. I read comments like ‘She’s...

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we...

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those – but it’s really important who’s mayor and who’s on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there’s the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there’s the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like...

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as ‘the bizarre’. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

I’m not tryin’ to come off as the best lyricist.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women’s experience to be valuable.

I can’t be a legend yet. I’m not dead.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I’m finished with it, that it moves me, that...

I don’t exist without writing.

It’s better to burn out, then to fade away.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

There’s no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don’t know why I’d retire.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that’s dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that’s what happened.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what’s going on in the world really bizarre.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

I love making music and I’m falling in love with making records, so it’s like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my...