I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

I gave up many times but I never quit.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

You have to be different, great or first.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.