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" Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. "

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" Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you. "

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" There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine. "

" There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in. "

" Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. "

" You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. "

" I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11. "

" I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s. "

" An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. "

" For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. "

" Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again. "

" Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. "

" People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. "

" People listen to music the way they want to listen to music. "

" A lot of songs are derivative of each other. "

" Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. "

" As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. "

" Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky. "

" Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. "

" I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. "

" There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. "

" The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. "

" Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. "

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" I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. "

" It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. "