People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.
Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.
I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.
