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

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

" My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. "

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. "

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

" When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. "

" I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. "

" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "

" The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love to dance. "

" My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable. "

" Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. "

" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "

" 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. "

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

" I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. "

" I see music as fluid architecture. "

" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "

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

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

" 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. "

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