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I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.