I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

If everybody gets in there and sees that and understands that, then it lets them know that they’re all human beings and creatures of God.

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It’s like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I’ll show up....

Exactly, especially when you’re talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically.

Death is an awful thing. I don’t believe in it myself.

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy’s houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to...

A good country song takes a page out of somebody’s life and puts it to music.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil’s.

We thought that’s the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock ‘n’ roll band. Flamboyant.

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don’t have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

No, I’ve heard over the years that it’s nice for them to see somebody who’s like, you know, a well-known successful musician who’s Asian. I’ve heard it from a few musicians, too.

I’m proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it’s time all us Indians felt the same way.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

Who wants to be married to a grandfather?

My love life doesn’t stink; it’s nonexistent.

My drum sticks are in the “Hall of Fame.” I know that.

When I’m at home I practice everyday.

But in those days – in the mid-’50s, early ’60s – there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn’t full time.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you’re writing all the time. You’re collecting songs. I’ve had songs that have been collected over a...

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of ’80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn’t expect, but I don’t know that the music police would be that surprised,...

I’m not unknown, yet I’m not super famous where I can’t go anywhere.

I definitely feel we’re moving forward. There’s a lot more understanding… there’s less fear and we’re working on there being less hatred.

If I did any movies I’d have to take a break from singing, because I’d want it to be really good.

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They’re supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have...

With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise...

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

What they’re not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

The worst crime is faking it.

I want to be cutting-edge.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

The day that I ever become hip… please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

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...