Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.

Memories shared change. You can add what you learned to the memory and it becomes easier to live with or benefit by.

Consumers care less about your brand’s vision statement, they want value delivered

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play