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"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource."
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"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."
"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."
"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."
"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."
"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."
"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."
"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."
"I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil."
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