Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

People who are just starting out are always sort of coming to me for advice as the example of "independent girl," and lots of people ask, well, how did you get the booking agent or the national distribution or the tours? And I look at them like, "Good lord! Relax!" I mean, how I did it was to not care about it and to not even think about it for years and years. All I thought about was getting the next little gig in the little bar, and I get this sense that people want me to give them the secret formula or the magic trick to make it all happen.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.