Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.Collection: Wisdom
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.Collection: Experience
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.Collection: Freedom
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.Collection: Divorce
Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.Collection: Letting Go
I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.Collection: Fall