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I like to think that I'm not old yet.
What drug will keep night from coming?
Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.
I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.
All I want to do is sing on other people's records.
I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.
You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.
I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!
I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.
Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.
If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?
It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.
I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.
I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.
The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.
We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.
Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.
I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...
You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.
There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.
Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.
I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.
Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.
I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.
I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.
When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.
When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”
I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.
I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.
I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.
I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.