It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.