Now and then it’s clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.
I feel like I’ve passed through a certain door in my life and that I’m standing in a different room now.
Now that I’m in my 40s, it’s much easier to be an artist. It’s good knowing that I’m not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make ‘beat’ music.
My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You’re finished.
Don’t the wounded bird still sing?
Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I’m a stranger in my own?
Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that’s what it’s been like with me.
The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won’t be here in a few years.
Justice is a fading light.
If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.
Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying, “Maybe not a bike!”
I am learning. I’m a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.
I try to conduct my life with a little levity.
We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They’re all refining moments. You’re constantly refining yourself and refining your life.
The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.
One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, ‘I’m washing dishes and bike shorts.’ He said, ‘It’s in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.’ And he was right.
The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.