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" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. "

" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "

" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "

" 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. "

" The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. "

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

" I see music as fluid architecture. "

" I hate show business. "

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

" I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I love to dance. "

" 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 don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. "

" Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. "

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

" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "

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

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

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

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