Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "

Related Quotes:

" White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. "

" 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. "

" I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. "

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "

" My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. "

" 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. "

" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "

" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "

" 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. "

" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "

" You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. "

" If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well. "

" I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. "

" I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. "

" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

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

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

" My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. "

" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "

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

" I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. "

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

" 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. "

" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "

" 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. "

" We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. "

" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "

" In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time. "