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" I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. "

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" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "

" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "

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

" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "

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

" I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. "

" I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? "

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

" I'm a night owl. "

" 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. "

" I'd had a rough childhood. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead. "

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

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

" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "

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

" 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 used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "

" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "

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

" I love to dance. "

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

" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "