I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The monsters are in your own head

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

I love that feeling of inspiring other women.

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.