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

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" I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger. "

" After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of. "

" You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. "

" Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. "

" Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself. "

" I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something. "

" 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. "

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" I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded. "

" I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. "

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" My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told. "

" If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? "

" There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. "

" Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. "

" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "

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

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" Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you. "

" My parents think I'm better under pressure. "

" There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. "

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" When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. "

" There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in. "

" My childhood was extreme. "