Knitting Quotes

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.