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You are a worksmith and who cares for his brothers, whos not seduced by illusions or fair weather friends.

I want to walk through life.

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

My yearn for home is broadened
Patriotism expanded
By callings from beyond
So I pack my things
Nothing precious
All things sacred

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Soon I'll grow up, and I won't even flinch at your name.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

You live, you learn.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.

America's a very traumatized society.

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

So many boys, so little time ...

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

Only traumatised people want to be famous.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.

I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

Whether you're checked in or checked out, you're always on a spiritual journey.

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

How long before my dignity is reclaimed?

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

I started making music because I could.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

Long hair is a security blanket for me. I cut it short a few years ago and I really never want to do that again. When I do cut it, I cut it myself.

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour

I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans,

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

How about not equating death with stopping?

212. "And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper"~

The more I know the less tortured I am.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.