The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
Phoebe SnowOnce I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.
Phoebe SnowSometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.
Phoebe SnowThe first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.
Phoebe SnowMy life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.
Phoebe SnowThere's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.
Phoebe SnowI know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.
Phoebe SnowWith my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.
Phoebe SnowMusic is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.
Phoebe SnowI wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
Phoebe SnowThere were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
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