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I see bodies as individual things.

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In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.

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Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

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When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

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Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

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I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

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My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

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I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

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To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

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I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

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My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

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My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

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I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

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An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

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But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.

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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

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Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

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The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

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I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

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If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

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I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

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I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

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The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

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