Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. "

Related Quotes:

" Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. "

" I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. "

" Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. "

Wonderful People

" When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. "

" I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. "

" Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. "

" This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me. "

" There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine. "

" 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. "

" Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all. "

" I like cosy, intimate houses. "

" If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. "

" It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes. "

" I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. "

" I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating. "

" I guess my husband is a muse as well. "

" My childhood was extreme. "

" You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse. "

" I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. "

" The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. "

" I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do? "

" I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. "

" 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. "

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

" My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. "

" I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer. "

" Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. "

" People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. "

" 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. "

" When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself? "