In society, one doesn’t tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Well, because we’re so different as people. And it’s that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don’t get in each others way.

I don’t think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

Also there’s two sides of it, I mean, a band like us, at our level and the way we have to promote ourselves and usually radio just completely turns their back on us, at the...

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing...

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

I’m a reflection of the community.

That’s what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn’t a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren’t afraid...

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don’t move, if you don’t start exercising you’re gonna deteriorate.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist’s process is not respected.

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but...

Shows have been sold out. It’s overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it,...

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

You never toot your own horn.

That’s what I do… Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke… I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that’s my twist.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Everything’s completely different, and it’s been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I’m handling things pretty well.

Honesty is all you need.

There’s a lot more country in this country than there is city, and I think a lot of people will be able to relate to what I’m saying.

But, I don’t think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can’t create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that’s written, he becomes...

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I’m going back in time to re-listen to the things I listened to years ago and discovering it all over again with new ears, ya know?

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through...

I had gone full-on folkie; I’d had it with bands.

Music. It’s all creativity right here, right now.

The audience, going along with the story, knows when the song is stuck in, feels it, resents it and can’t enjoy it, and the song fails.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to...

To those of us who know the pain, Of valentines that never came, And those whose names were never called, When choosing sides for basketball.

Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.

They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I’ve never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

People go back to the stuff that doesn’t cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don’t have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff...

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

But I’ve done some soundtrack things with my brother for stuff, and I’m hoping to get into actual scoring. That’s really where I’d like to end up.

I think that there’s a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don’t have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff....

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I’m not a big fan of layered productions.

I know what it’s like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

File sharing is our radio; that’s the way people hear our stuff.