I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.

If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

The less routine the more life.

I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

Live, for this is the time of your life.