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" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? "

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

" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "

" You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. "

" Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. "

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

" White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I hate show business. "

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

" I love to dance. "

" 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. "

" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "

" 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. "