Musician Quotes

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I enjoy money.

It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

The European public has always been great to me.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.