A lot of people lack faith. I have a lot of faith, maybe even in lost causes sometimes.
A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people. A perfect example is the Catholic priests.
A lot of tribute compilations are no good. I'm sure there are a lot of greater artists out there that you could do a tribute to.
Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.
Certain songs are hard to play and sing at the same time.
Cool Rock Boy was a real person, and I definitely can't tell you who it is.
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
Everything was leading me to putting out my own record. It's gone exactly how I wanted it to go. I got the record out, It's in some stores and We're doing some mail-order business.
I always had a vague feeling that I wanted to do something beautiful and pure and powerful.
I can play drums, but I don't very often.
I deliberately wrote about other things and tried to force myself to do something different from what I would do instinctively.
I did too many interviews. I said too many stupid things. I wish I would have just kept my mouth shut. I was young and naive and stupid. I had no filter.
I didn't make a conscious choice about never getting drunk. It's just happened that way. It's a healthy, natural thing. Not a weird, compulsive thing.
I didn't really get into guitar until I was in high school, and I went electric.
I don't have the mind of a business person. To me, It's not about maximizing profits, It's about being totally independent. The benefit is the freedom of it.
I don't have to go on tour if I don't feel like it. There's no label pressure to go on tour. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. I can make all the choices.
I don't like to read certain things, they upset me.
I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.
I don't really like very many places.
I don't want to be afraid to do things that come naturally, like love songs, but now I'm going to make them more universal.
I feel like I'm too underground or too on the fringes to be a real role model.
I find myself a fascinating subject.
I get mad at the fact that, as a woman in America in the '90s, I have to worry about being attacked all the time.
I have kids, and I can't really travel very much.
I just recently started to realise that I look OK. I'm pretty lucky that I don't have any problems with my weight.
I know I'm probably gonna want to have a baby some day, and if I haven't had sex by then, I will.
I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.
I liked English. If this music thing doesn't work out, I might go back to school.
I live in Cambridge. I've lived here for about four years.
I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.
I really liked Mark Bellhorn. He was a guy who didn't always get credit for all of his good things. People seemed so willing to forget what he did last year. Instead, they'd just boo, and I didn't think it was fair.
I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
I think It's a little bit sad and disheartening that really talented people have to play that game.
I think one day I'm going to be a writer. I used to write before I started doing music, and I think I'll end up doing it again.
I thought it would be really funny to say that I didn't care about sex in a magazine that's full of sex and beauty, but no one really got the joke.
I want to come to Europe. I just haven't had a lot of support from the record companies over there lately, so it's been hard to get someone to bring me over.
I wanted to capture the raw, early takes of everything. It gives it a good energy. It's also cheaper that way.
I wanted to present the idea that maybe sex isn't a very big deal. I think there are a lot of people who don't care about sex, so I thought I should say it.
I was a little bit dismayed at how misunderstood my last records were. They probably were not meant for very many people's ears.
I was at Flat Top Johnny's in Cambridge when we won the World Series. There was an eclipse that night.
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
I'll work on a song for a month or two sometimes, but it's not every day. And then other songs will be written in two or three hours.
I'm a neo-Luddite.
I'm a vegetarian, but I wear leather. I don't eat meat.
I'm full of contradictions.
I'm just telling it like it is. It is what it is.
I'm kind of offended whenever someone tries to impose their belief system on to me. It's like when people offer to pray for you, like there's something wrong with you.
I'm not a very good advice-giver.
I've had jobs to pay the rent, like retail and stuff. The last job I had before I got my record contract was working in a used record store.
I've never had formal auditions, I usually just hear about some guy, and I'll hire him on word of mouth.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.
It's really empowering to see exactly who's buying it, where they're coming from and I can see exactly how many copies I've sold. I can see truthfully how many records I've sold. It's just really cool to be hands-on with everything.
Just do what feels right.
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
My knees are ticklish.
My old band the Blake Babies is putting out a new album the beginning of March, so we've been preparing for that, getting ready for a little tour.
My soul is fine, thanks.
Next, I want to do an acoustic album... a pretty one.
No one wants to be a victim, and anyone who is attacked when they're defenseless can relate to the fantasy of suddenly fighting back and being so mad that you just want to kill.
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.
People have given me tapes of their own versions of my songs.
People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.
The commercial side of it now is about making a living. I never really cared about achieving commercial success. As soon as I was signed to a record company, I felt like I made it because I was able to quit my day job.
The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.
The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.
The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.
These spiritual leaders are the people who should really be fixing what's wrong inside themselves.
To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.
To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.
To write two completely different sets of lyrics to the same music, it was sort of a joke to myself, because I couldn't decide on what I wanted to say, so I said two different things!
When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
When I was putting the album together, I just gathered up a bunch of cool photos that seemed to fit with the album.
When we lost the first three games to the Yankees, I thought that it was over. I was thinking, I'm breaking up with the Red Sox! I can't take the pain anymore! We're done!
You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.
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