You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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I’m very at home working with mythology.
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Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
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I think that people who can’t believe in fairies aren’t worth knowing.
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Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon
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Anyone who doesn’t belive in Faeries, isn’t worth knowing.
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Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
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To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
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Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.
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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.
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In real life I’m bone dry and when I play I’m a mango and in sex I’m starving to be a dripping mango
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My ears are huge. If there’s ever a problem with a plane I’m on, they could just put me on the wing and I’ll land the sucker.
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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.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said ‘no.’ I mean, you just don’t want to marry someone you’ve wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
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When you don’t have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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Being in your forties – any woman who isn’t there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
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The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, ‘Sometimes I just breathe you in.’
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I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
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