People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind.
I mean, I think it’s hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn’t narrow your options.
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it’s one we rarely address because it’s so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
I don’t hate being compared with female musicians. I don’t mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women’s work.
I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It’s nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you’re gonna be.
Privilege is a headache, that you don’t know that you don’t have.
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms – dancing, painting. But there’s something about music that people hold so close. It’s such a powerful art form, and that’s why I live for it.
I think I’m a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.
All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.
Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?
I don’t know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven’t met any, and I’m kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.
So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.
Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.
Music has as many roles as people make it.
The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
There’s a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.
In a man’s world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found – they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.
But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.