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Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won’t have anything to complain about. I think our generation loves our pain, and if you dare take it away from us, we’re going to kill you. We like our pain. And we’re packaging it, and we’re selling it.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.

It’s fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

Fun Quotes

I have a rule that I don’t read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it’s right there, so what do you think I do?

Reading Quotes

There’s a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

I’ve been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don’t want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

There’s a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can’t write. It’s a big business.

I’m not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn’t always the best way in.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother – she worked in a record store.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.

I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.

I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.

Stories Quotes

I don’t see music as working.

I don’t really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

I don’t allow challenges to trip me up.

For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I’m in complete charge of my own career.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

I’m not very social when I’m off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It’s very reclusive.

It’s not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it’s okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

He said, first let’s just unzip your religion down.

Firsts Quotes

I’ve carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

My husband doesn’t know what my songs are about – even when they’re about him. He’s very British in that way. He doesn’t ask, and he doesn’t want to be told.

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don’t believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don’t get confused.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

I’m a mother, and that’s really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn’t get switched off.

I like cosy, intimate houses.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

I’m a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, ‘Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?’ And she would look at me and say, ‘No honey, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’

My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don’t accept anything less.

I want to be an integrated woman.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That’s when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.

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