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

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.

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.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

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