Quotes by Women Songwriters

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

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man.

I think acting is something that I want to make sure that, if I do make that transition, I want to make sure that it's really dramatic, and put my energy into acting, you know, fully instead of trying to balance a whole lot of things at once, 'cause I really don't want to become one of those singer-trying-to-be-actor-but-didn't-really-work kind of thing.

She said
"I'm young enough
I'm old enough
In the city machine
Where industries
Fill the fish full of mercury"

I wanna be by myself
I came in this world alone
Me myself I.

Joan Armatrading

We all love animals, but why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner'? If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. I know. I'm from cattle country. That's why I became a vegetarian.

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.

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

Alanis Morissette

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

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.

I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band — individuals, not session musicians.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

Katherine Lee Bates

I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.

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

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?

There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

You have done
Good for yourselves
Since you left my wet embrace
And crawled ashore
...
My sons and my daughters
Ho-oh!
Your sweat is salty
I am why

One needs to take one's time because good work takes time. But it must be worth the wait in the end.

This is how it works —
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

Don't count on me
I engineer on every
Move we make from here
I'll take the lead
You take the pain
You see, I engineered
This game.