Sheryl Crow Quotes

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history.

Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.

Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.

Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion.

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it oughta be. It seems like everytime I try to make it right, it all comes down on me. Please say honestly you won't give up on me, and I shall believe.

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.

As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

I'm still the king of me.

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

I want to collaborate with Amy [Winehouse] because she's really hot and cool right now. I know one song Rehab was very popular particularly because a lot of young people are in rehab as well. In fact I'm thinking about going. It looks like loads of fun and I know my career will benefit from it.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

My sister, she says she knows Elvis.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.

I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.

One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

One of the greatest ways to stay young is to have little kids.