I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.