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" I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. "

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" 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 love to dance. "

" 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. "

" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "

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

" Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. "

" In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time. "

" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "

" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "

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

" 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. "

" When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. "

" If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well. "

" 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. "

" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "

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

" 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. "

" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "

" I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. "

" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "

" White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. "

" 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. "

" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "

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

" In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles. "

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

" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "

" I'm a night owl. "

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

" There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. "