I have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

I didn't go to college.

... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue.

[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Worry is a waste of imagination.