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" Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. "

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" 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. "

" I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. "

" My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. "

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

" I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. "

" I have built my world through Native American mythology. "

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

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

" Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. "

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

" To me glamour isn't about being sparkly. "

" 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? "

" I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. "

" I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. "

" When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. "

" I don't see music as working. "

" 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. "

" I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. "

" Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky. "

" Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again. "

" I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. "

" Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. "

" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "

" Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30. "

" Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. "