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" 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. "

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

" There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring. "

" It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. "

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

" In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. "

" As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. "

" If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. "

" 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. "

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

" I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. "

" Well, I have a lot of food references in my work. "

" I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. "

" 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. "

" There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. "

" I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! "

" There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. "

" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "

" 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. "

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

" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. "

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

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

" I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. "

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

" I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. "

" 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. "

" At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. "