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

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" I love to dance. "

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

" 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. "

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" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. "

" 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. "

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

" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a night owl. "

" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "