The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.
Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me. )
I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good. "
I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.
Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.