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" Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me. "
Take Care
Take
Me
" But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman. "
Care
Baby
Woman
" By the time I was five, I was a little diva. "
Diva
Time
Little
" Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. "
Wife
Parenting
Meetings
" Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice. "
Fight
Today
Think
" Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. "
Say
Back
Always
" For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us. "
Friends
America
Forget
" He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor. "
Were
Rat
Boa
" I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person. "
Know
Fear
Fearless
" I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers. "
Like
Grace
Look
" I don't really like to be filmed. "
Like
Really
" If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? "
You
Performance
Key
" If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time. "
Girl
Look
Angry
" If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up. "
Stop
Street
You
" If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star. "
Find
Rock
Rock Star
" I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person. "
Like
Person
Long
" I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life. "
Fight
Hair
Brother
" I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer. "
Way
Looking
Children
" I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio. "
Up
Doing
Days
" I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. "
Guitar
Instrument
Behind
" I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy. "
Yourself
Girl
Mysterious
" It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person. "
Hotel
You
Band
" It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. "
Music
People
Song
" I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90. "
Walking
She
Girl
" I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that. "
Girl
Going
More
" I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left. "
Her
Two
Watch
" I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. "
Movies
Musicians
People
" Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't. "
Love
Men
Fall
" Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone. "
Alone
Women
People
" My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick. "
Relationship
Cool
Generation
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