1- “Love will abide, take things in stride.”
2- “I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.”
3- “What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it’s very inclusive.”
4- “I’m a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family’s music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.”
5- “Don’t know much, but I know I love you.”
6- “If you don’t have story to tell the public at large – you have to be able to sort of go listen.”
7- “There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don’t look like a fashion model.”
8- “You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can’t you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.”
9- “Music should be an elective experience. You should go, “I’m going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God,” and then you get to hear it.”
10- “I never thought I’d write, because I’d never written anything in my whole life.”
11- “I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.”
12- “I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.”
13- “Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.”
14- “We’ve got blue light, we’ve got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can’t get a decent night’s sleep.”
15 – “Story is what’s most important.”
16- “So goodbye, I’ll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We’ll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.”
17- “Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it’s oddly unnatural.”
18- “What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I’d get too loaded, I couldn’t remember the sentence I just read.”
19- “The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.”
20- “I only notice the clothes I’m wearing.”
21- “I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.”
22- “Time washes clean, love’s wounds unseen.”
23- “Life’s full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.”
24- “My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.”
25- “I can’t sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.”