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

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.

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.

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.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.