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" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "

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" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "

" 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'm a Buddhist. "

" I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. "

" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "

" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "

" People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. "

" Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. "

" 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. "

" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "

" I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

" You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. "

" I'm a night owl. "

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

" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "

" I see music as fluid architecture. "

" 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'm a little young for retirement. "

" Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

" You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. "

" It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. "

" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "

" I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. "

" I'd had a rough childhood. "

" I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world. "

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

" 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. "

" We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. "

" I believe that I am male and I am female. "