I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.