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" My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. "

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" At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. "

" When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. "

" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "

" It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. "

" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "

" I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. "

" My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable. "

" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "

" The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. "

" My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention. "

" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "

" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "

" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "

" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "

" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "

" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "

" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "

" We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. "

" Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. "

" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "

" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "

" Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. "

" You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. "

" I learned a woman is never an old woman. "

" I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead. "

" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "

" I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. "

" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "

" I believe that I am male and I am female. "

" I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. "