I’m a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
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There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach.
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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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I’m a grown woman. I’ve earned my experiences, my scars.
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I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
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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.
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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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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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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift…Womanhood is a choice.
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I’m a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody’s ready to slit their wrists.
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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn’t get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.
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As the sun sets, we’ve all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.
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If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
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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 backstory.
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Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
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At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
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My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he’s very much for women’s rights.
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When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I’ve had conversations with journalists that I’ve never had with anybody else.
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I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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I’ve never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I’m an emotional player. I don’t really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It’s totally reliable and it’s alive. I can hear what it’s saying.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
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