Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.
In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.
I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.
I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero.
I just kind of tried to stay true to myself.
When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out.
To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook.
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.