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 gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.
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I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s.
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You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
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You don’t have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.
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got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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My favorite saying is, ‘If it’s too loud, turn it up.’
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Confucius does his crossword with a pen.
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
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You don’t have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
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I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating
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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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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 want to be an integrated woman.
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