I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.