Popular Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, guitarist and painter. Her real name is Roberta Joanne Anderson.
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1- “Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.”
2- “You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you’re still young at heart.”
3- “Van Gogh was impulsive.”
4- “Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It’s a very fragile plant.”
5- “A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.”
6- “You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.”
7- “I’m not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.”
8- “I learned from admiration and osmosis.”
9- “Sex sells everything and sex kills.”
10- “The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.”
11- “Everybody’s saying hell’s the hippest way to go. Well, I don’t think so, but I’m gonna take a look around it though.”
12- “I can’t remember anything I ever wrote.”
13- “I’m not a pitiable creature. It’s just that I suffer very eloquently.”
14- “I do have this reputation for being a serious person.”
15- “We love our lovin’….but not like we love our freedom.”
16- “Fear is like the wilderland – Stepping stones or sinking sand”
17- “My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.”
18- “I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.”
19- “Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
20- “No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.”
21- “Applause, applause, life is our cause.”
22- “I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.”
23- “I learned a woman is never an old woman.”
24- “Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.”
25- “Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.”
26- “Heaven’s full of astronauts and the Lord’s on death row.”
27- “Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.”
28- “To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.”
29- “Laughing and crying, you know it’s the same release.”
30- “Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I’ve looked at love that way.”
31- “I love you when I forget about me.”
32- “Love is touching souls.”
33- “During times like these, the wise are influential.”
34- “I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.”
35- “Lord, there’s danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.”
36- “So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.”
37- “I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.”
38- “Something’s lost, but something’s gained, in living everyday.”
39- “You’ve got to keep the child alive; you can’t create without it.”
40- “Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.”
41- “Keep a good heart. That’s the most important thing in life. It’s not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.”
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