Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

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.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

Of course, things always seem more impressive when you're a little kid.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Sow an action, reap a habit.

People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone. "You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind.