Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.
I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
I was raised really poor and so was my husband.
I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed.
I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
I have always been a workaholic.
I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.
There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.
I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.
We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
