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"You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out."
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"It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in."

"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."

"According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined."

"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

"You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself."

"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."
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"You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself."

"So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection."

"There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it."

"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."

"Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed."

"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

"I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that."

"I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future."

"If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at."

"Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values."
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