My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
I am as constant as a northern star 
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. 
I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. 
I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities. 
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. 
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. 
Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them. 
The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief. 
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it. 
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. 
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. 
I do have this reputation for being a serious person. 
I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me. 
My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. 
They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had 
Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load. 
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. 
Van Gogh was impulsive. 
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. 
Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though. 
Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living. 
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. 
She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when. 
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! 
The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em. 
I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire. 
So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way. 
For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. 
I believe that I am male and I am female. 
I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. 
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. 
I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe. 
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. 
We love our lovin' ... but not like we love our freedom. 
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. 
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. 
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. 
I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself. 
Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. 
People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal. 
Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs. 
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. 
Love is touching souls. 
Well something's lost but something's gained in living every day. 
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. 
The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. 
I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party. 
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. 
They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing. 
My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. 
Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to shareA dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done
Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. 
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.
you dont know what you got till its gone 
Some get the gravy, some get the gristle. 
All my battles were with male egos. I'm just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision. 
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found. 