Sheryl Crow Quotes

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

I got to learn to surf.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.

Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.

Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.

If it makes you happy It can't be that bad If it makes you happy Then why the hell are you so sad

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.

Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

Are you strong enough to be my man?

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.