To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

When I'm off the road my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature being in silence burning incense.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind no elements it can bend and withstand anything.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it and rock'n'roll and it has an urgency to it.

I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup their clothes music live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously don't take too seriously.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

From the beginning I knew intuitively that if nothing else music was safe and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion and now well technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't I don't really see a point to it.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything I don't advocate anything I just live with it.

When I die I want people to play my music go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

If people take anything from my music it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.