Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

I am very picky about my people and my beer.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I like rules that are broken.

I like to make great albums.

I didn't go to college.

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.

There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster.

When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.

Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.

the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.