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" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "

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" 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. "

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

" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "

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" 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. "

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

" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "

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

" In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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