I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.