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" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "

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" At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. "

" My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. "

" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "

" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "

" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "

" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "

" Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. "

" My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. "

" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "

" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "

" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "

" When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. "

" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "

" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "

" We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. "

" Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. "

" When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. "

" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "

" I learned a woman is never an old woman. "

" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "

" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "

" You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. "

" I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. "

" I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

" What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. "

" My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. "

" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "

" I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. "

" I love to dance. "