When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.
I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they’re overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
You don’t know the power that you have with that tear in your hand.
The way I see it, the men that I’m with, whoever they are, it’s like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.
Carbon made only wants to be unmade.
Sometimes I hear my voice and it’s been here, silent all these years.
I’m trying not to move, it’s just your ghost passing through.
I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.
I don’t see music as working.
Things go wrong all the time; you can’t be precious about it.
There are older men with younger women but you don’t see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful.
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.