"Conducting is a strange thing to teach."
"I always try to stay versatile."
"I think blood doesn't determine who your family is."
"I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can."
"I have lots of personal feelings of my own, but at this stage in my life and career, I'm very much driven by assignment."
"I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of."
"When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine."
"When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort."
"The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!"
"What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star."
"Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life."
"It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve."
"There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs."
"I am mostly a positive person and I think I always have been."
"The level of study that I was at, I was probably only about two or three years away from being ordained as a rabbi, so I really needed to figure out in my head where I wanted to go with things. And I just couldn't do it habitually anymore."
"I work better under pressure."
"I haven't shaken my fists at the moon."
"I don't want to say I'm a role model because I've not been the most clean-cut person, and there were times I could have gone the other way."
"And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor."
"I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion."
"I don't have a great story, but I love Boards of Canada. I didn't get into it when it was happening; I got into it later on."
"I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and Milos Forman and all these people."
"Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought."
"I love country music."
"That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think."
