I’ve seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.
Stop dragging my heart around.
You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
Rock and menopause do not mix.
I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, ‘Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?’
I don’t love the years going by. I’d just as soon stay forty-five. But it’s OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.
If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?
The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.
If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don’t make it a rock star.
I watched Janis one time – we opened for her – and that’s the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.
I’m doing lots of interviews and stuff. I’m longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can’t be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can’t write.
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
She is like a cat in the dark And then she is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless All your life you’ve never seen a woman Taken by the wind Would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win?
I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.
And the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines But I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side Of my darling My life, my life...
I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.
Love is only one fine star away.
My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.