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" I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records. "

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" My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted. "

" I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling. "

" I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current. "

" It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. "

" I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. "

" There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure. "

" I don't sing anything that hurts my voice. "

" I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering. "

" I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards. "

" You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. "

" Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go. "

" I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing. "

" When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. "

" I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly. "

" I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice. "

" I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous. "

" We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste. "

" I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old. "

" Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting. "

" The older I get, the more I embrace who I am. "

" I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. "

" It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make. "

" There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music. "

" I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all. "

" I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by. "

" I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of. "

" My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear. "

" I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away. "

" If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. "

" Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot. "