I write about what I know.

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.

Un día habré dormido con un sueño tan largo que ni tus besos puedan avivar el letargo. Un día estaré sola, como está la montaña entre el largo desierto y la mar que la baña.

Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Or maybe...their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.