Cat Power Quotes

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

Never give up, no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

I need to be able to face things.

I've always dressed like a dude.

I am human and I make mistakes.

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

People and their religions don't affect me.

People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

Oh I do believe
In all the things you see
What comes is better
Than what came before

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.