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

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

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

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

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

- Joan Osborne

How long have you been sitting in the darkness? You forget. You know you're getting hard to be with and you're crying every time you turn around. Oh …

- Joan Osborne

Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on stage, I do!

- 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