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

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" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "

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

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

" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "

" I'm a Buddhist. "

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

" I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. "

" 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. "

" I hate show business. "

" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "

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" 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. "

" There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. "

" 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. "