I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Fear of vikings build castles.

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.