Quotes by Women Songwriters

Lady Gaga

Amy Winehouse

Kylie Minogue

Taylor Swift

Katy Perry

Björk

Patti Smith

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion.

We are the number one offender
Of specieism and yet
Here we are reaching out for aliens
Looking for our salvation.
Pity our emptiness
Save our souls.

You don't have to live next to me
Just give me my equality.

Reach for the top
And the sun is gonna shine
Every winter was a war she said
I want to get what's mine.

His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me.

Civilla D. Martin

I don't think that any of us really realized how much it would fragment us afterwards. It unraveled my mom and trickled down to us. And we never healed again.

I would never preach vegetarianism. It's such a personal choice. It's got to suit you, and be right for you: emotionally, spiritually and physically. If it's working for you, that's really great. … I definitely think there are some benefits. I know a lot of people that have had cancer, for example, and they'll make a point of telling me, 'The first thing my doctor told me to do was stop eating meat during this process.' I think it's interesting a doctor would suggest a vegetarian diet when you're already sick. … I stick to a mixture of real raw, whole-food items every day. I make sure I'm eating greens every day, and nuts, and food that's not processed. I do that every day.

Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life.

I've got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand.

I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.

[People] would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer", and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."

Everything is everything
What is meant to be will be.
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually.

Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years,

No matter what they say the time has come
I'm ready now to start a new beginning
With all our hopes and all our dreams
And I know the stars will shine for you and for me
From the moment you believe.

I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Adelaide Anne Procter

And why do I sew each new chapeau
With a style they most look positively grim in?
Strictly between us, entre-nous
I hate women.

I really love having money, because it lets me be lazy. Work's really overrated.

Charlotte Church

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else,
How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself.

Alanis Morissette

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

You're falling all over me I'm losing myself in your mystery
I'm afraid of loving you, I'm afraid of losing me
I'm over my head and I'm seeing red
But I'm waiting right here for you in my bed

Michelle Lambert

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.