There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
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I think there’s a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
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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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Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It’s about discipline. You have to push yourself.
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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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If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.
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got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor’s been.
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A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
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The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.
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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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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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Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song.
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I guess my husband is a muse as well.
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The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.
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Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
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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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