I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

You cannot simultaneously want to eat a chocolate cake every day in front of the TV and want to be slim. You cannot want to be single and carefree and want to be in a loving, exclusive relationship

Be a teacher.Be a healer.Be a giver.Be a winner.

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty.

How we feel with someone—if they improve our mood or cause our heart to sink—can determine the health of the relationship. How do you feel around them? It's a simple measurement tool.

Bury your enemies with success.

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery