I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

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

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.

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.

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

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

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

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

The past is just something that's over.

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

The King of Abyssinia always dines alone.

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.