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

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" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "

" 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. "

" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

" I'm a Buddhist. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. "

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

" When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "

" 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. "

" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "

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

" Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. "

" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "

" There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. "

" When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. "