I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to…

- Joan Osborne

I do think that it's a challenge for me or for anybody who has had certain iconic things happen to them in their career to re-engage people and say t…

- Joan Osborne

It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with …

- Joan Osborne

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

- Joan Osborne

This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the d…

- Joan Osborne

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pa…

- Joan Osborne

I try to stay in gratitude as much as I can. You know, we all get to the point where we're frazzled, or tired, or frustrated, or whatever it is, but …

- Joan Osborne

Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done…

- Joan Osborne

Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you'…

- Joan Osborne