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Born: 1963-08-22
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
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Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

Tags: Beautiful, Great, Places


Tags: Color, Guys, Sleep


Tags: Try, Violence, Women

When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

Tags: Become, Routine, Shut

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Tags: Player, Someone, Tell

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

Tags: Life, Question, Sun

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Tags: Devil, Influence, Worst

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tags: Child, Mom


Tags: Girl, Mind, Women

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Tags: Away, Bit, Themselves

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

Tags: Big, Enough, Mess

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Tags: Battle, Best, Times


Tags: Bad, Good, Saying

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Tags: Derivative, Songs

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

Tags: Hear


Tags: After, Business, Getting

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Tags: Half, Seem, Time

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

Tags: Knew, Mother, Someone

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Tags: Able, Privilege, Records

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

Tags: Else, Good, Shoes

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

Tags: Choice, Done, Time

I don't kid around.

Tags: Kid

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Tags: Anymore, Faith, Washington

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks.

Tags: Cook, Cooks, Husband

I don't see music as working.

Tags: Music, Working

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

Tags: Foolish, Give, Men
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Tags: Felt, Finding, Industry

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Tags: Life, Quite, Stuff

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

Tags: Time, Tired, Wearing

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

Tags: Guess, Husband, Muse

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Tags: Read, Reading, Somebody


Tags: Drunk, Tone, Water


Tags: Fantasy, Grounded, Sometimes

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Tags: Houses, Intimate

I like involved projects.

Tags: Involved, Projects

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

Tags: Love, Mother, She

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Tags: Classical, Dangerous, Theme

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

Tags: Change, Child, Open

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

Tags: Accept, High, Less

I want to be an integrated woman.

Tags: Integrated, Woman


Tags: Daughter, Months, Wanted


Tags: Half, Piano, Sat

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

Tags: Company, Dance, Love

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

Tags: Privilege, Stories, Telling


Tags: Characters, Idea, Musical

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Tags: Away, Giving, Stop

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

Tags: Giving, Head, Hear

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Tags: Career, Carved, Writer


Tags: American, Art, Native


Tags: Keep, Music, Ways


Tags: Alone, Living, Writing

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

Tags: Fun, Keep, Write

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Tags: Enjoyed, Fleeting, Life

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Tags: Minds, Music, Reflection

My childhood was extreme.

Tags: Childhood, Extreme

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Tags: Father, Mind, Women

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tags: Father, Music, Rock

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Tags: Beer, Church, Father


Tags: Favorite, Saying, Turn

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Tags: Artists, Business, Career


Tags: Listen, Music


Tags: Depressed, Half

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Tags: Father, Gay, Job

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Tags: Hide, Intrigue, Others

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Tags: Again, Enjoy, Give

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Tags: Doors, Opened, Pop

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Tags: Feeling, Knew, Seems

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Tags: Enough, Mothers, Rock


Tags: Pressure, Time, Women

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

Tags: Big, Business, Write


Tags: Music, Real, Time

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.

Tags: Glamour

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

Tags: Food, References, Work


Tags: Beyond, Close, Torture


Tags: Another, Myth, Older


Tags: Mothers, Shatter, Start

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Tags: Daily, Learning

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Tags: Defend, Leave, Themselves

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

Tags: Good, Mother, Mothers


Tags: After, Time, Young

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.

Tags: Hurt, Painful, Young


Tags: Company, Control, Hand

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

Tags: Car, Family


Tags: Dreams, Life, Time

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

Tags: Fine, Journey, Learn


Tags: Might, Off, Whether

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

Tags: Ask, Him, Husband

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

Tags: Done, Greatest, Law


Tags: Another, Powerful, Woman

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

Tags: Listen, Sometimes, Touch


Tags: Fact, Religion, Vote


Tags: Able, Men, Women


Tags: Learn, Saying, Thinking


Tags: Another, Energy, Life


Tags: Language, Old, Works

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tags: Audience, Song, Songs


Tags: Mom, She, Used

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

Tags: Good, Great, Work

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Tags: Abuse, Age, Technology


Tags: Afraid, Once, Try