To me, making records isn't work.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?

We aren’t afraid of what we can explain.

I would rather die than hide like a coward.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

It's a very beneficial experience for me that America has started to be interested in me. I get offers here, and I'm very open to having a new spring in my career here.