Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.
I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.
If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.
When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.
The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.
I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.
I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces.