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There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

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I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

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I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

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I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

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Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

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I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

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Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

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Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

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After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

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Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

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I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

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I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

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I like cosy, intimate houses.

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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

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Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

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I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

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For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

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My childhood was extreme.

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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

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My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

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When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything.

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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

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There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

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You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

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When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

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I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

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I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

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For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

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There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

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I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

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I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

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I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

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I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

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I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

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