My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

What a beautiful world this will be What a glorious time to be free

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Strong women are the universe’s way of enhancing the strength of men.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Know that you’re coming from plentitude and abundance. You lack nothing. You have star power.