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

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

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

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

" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "

" Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "

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

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "

" You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. "

" I'm a night owl. "

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

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

" I hate show business. "

" 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. "

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" In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles. "

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

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

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