Sheryl Crow Quotes

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone.

Then when I cut my hair short, my career tanked for about four years!

One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

Love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have (a relationship), you're always looking for one.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.

All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying maybe not a bike.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

You don't bring me anything but down.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

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...Everything that happens to you influences your writing...The writing process for me is pretty much always the same-it's a solitary experience...I have yet to write that one song that defines my career...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.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

Doing yoga on the road was really a life-saver, and a life-changer….It kept me focused and gave me more control over the way I divided my energy. I realize that if [a place of goodness] is the basis for all decision-making, then the road is clear.

I don’t need to reiterate the fact that that everyone has a relationship with cancer. Whether it’s an individual-personal relationship — whether it’s with family or friends — we’ve all been touched by cancer.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

I'm one of a dying breed who goes out and tours all the time. Labels don't spend the money to send people out to play before they become famous, but we did do that so the fans we have are word of mouth fans who have been travelling around with us for years, and they buy the albums, but they are also the ones who go out and get the bootlegs. I don't discourage bootlegging, I like playing live, I don't think it hurts my album sales at all if there are bootlegs out there. Who cares?

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.