Quotes By Sheryl Crow

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

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

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

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

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

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.

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

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

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.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

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

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

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I got to learn to surf.

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

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

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