Quotes By Sheryl Crow

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.