I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that..

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople'….

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she….

There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent….

I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew ….

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to….

I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that..

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment..

I've raised my daughter with no television..

Life is sweet, life is also very short..

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing..

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope..

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investig….

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!.

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration..

I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be….

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous..

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again..

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd..

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index..

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics..