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" I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. "

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" Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. "

" Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people. "

" When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth. "

" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "

" People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. "

" My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. "

" The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power. "

" Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. "

" There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. "

" I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate. "

" I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. "

" I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. "

" I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. "

" There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach. "

" My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. "

" I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. "

" If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night. "

" I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. "

" Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me. "

" You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing talent, and sometimes you kind of just want to say, 'We know you're not Hannah Montana anymore. We know that, my dear. My darling. Now, go be great.' "

" I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry. "

" I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off. "

" The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. "

" Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. "

" So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. "

" A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. "

" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "