Sheryl Crow Quotes

I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.

Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

If it makes you happy it can't be that bad

One of the things that has changed my life - and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality - is meditating. The simple act of making my brain shut off for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night may not seem like much, but what ends up happening, besides creating space in your day, is your awake posture begins to replicate your meditative posture.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.

The only person who can save you is you: That going to be the thing that informed the rest of my life.

I snore. I've had two or three people complain about it.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?

I think your life informs your art.

You're my favorite mistake

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.

I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.

Are you strong enough to be my man?

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.

I got to learn to surf.

Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

Technology has helped me with the writing and recording processes, and it's a great way to reach out to fans of my music, ... Dell's combining all these different technologies and making it really easy to enjoy them.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?

It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.

People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people.