I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

America is too great for small dreams.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.