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A lot of songs I've written in the past, if I felt they were getting too personal, I would tend to go into third person.
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Am I faithful, am I strong, am I good enough to belong? In your reverie of a perfect girl?
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At that time I got pregnant, I lost my mother, had a child four months later. It was very difficult to get back to music after that.
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At the risk of tooting my own horn, I started a school for kids at risk to get music education, and it's from K to 12. You see these kids when they started out, not even knowing how to hold an instrument, and two years later they are giving a recital.
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Being away from home, being away from creature comforts, is just not conducive for me. I need to go home or go be by myself for a while.
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Building A Mystery is a fun song to sing. It's a little more playful than a lot of other things.
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Call that ego or whatever but I don't want to put out a record and have it not sell because I was too lazy to go out and work it.
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Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
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For years and years, I had been playing other people's songs. It was always my biggest dream to be up onstage performing. It always seemed intangible for me.
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Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
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Hold on, hold on to yourself, for this is gonna hurt like hell.
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I always like to think that creatively and artistically I've moved forward; there's no reinventing the wheel.
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I am honoured to have won three awards already. It is always such a big, glamorous event and the whole world is watching you.
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I can't be with people who are drinking unless I'm drinking, too. I hardly drink anyway.
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I chose to elope with my drummer. We didn't tell anyone for two months, so that definitely ate into recording time.
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I did Lillith Fair for three years and I felt we'd achieved everything that we could-I felt it had run its course.
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I didn't have any deep insecurities about being out of the picture for so long. I live in my little bubble and do my thing.
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I don't deal with deadlines very well.
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I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.
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I don't think about what other people want from me.
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I get nostalgic about touring after I've been away from it for a while. But on our European tour we'd been out for so long and together in such a confined space, we all started to regress.
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I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.
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I had a chance to sort of just grow into it. With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in.
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I have had very little opportunity to talk to anybody who's been in any position such as mine. Especially a woman.
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I just want to sing. I've been on the road for over a year now, so I'm sort of at my wit's end with life and the world.
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I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.
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I love Coldplay, U2. As far as new musical genres, there's really not a lot out there that excites me that much.
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I moved to Vancouver when I was 19 with the idea that I would be there for six months to work on a record. I immediately fell in love with it.
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I need to live by the ocean. I've been to a lot of cities and a lot of countries, and Vancouver has so many fantastic elements.
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I play piano every day.
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I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.
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I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.
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I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.
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I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
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I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.
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I wanted to do a few shows in the summer, but I didn't want the responsibility of it all on my shoulders.
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I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.
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I would count one of the biggest successes when Surfacing came out and entered in at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.
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I would go see any of these Lilith Fair shows. It's an incredible bill, and it's always changing.
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I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
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I'm a little embarrassed about some of the lyrics, but I was 19 years old.
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I'm going to be around for a while. I'm not going anywhere soon.
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I'm going to have another kid, and the same cyclical thing will happen again.
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I'm going to take the next year off to write and be out of the spotlight and see where the winds blow.
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I'm nervous because I have a child, and it's a big challenge to try and find a balance as a parent.
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I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.
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I'm not pretending to be anything-this is going back to that process of tearing down all those walls that we build up to protect ourselves.
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I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
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I'm very computer illiterate. I know how to get my email and play Solitaire and that's about it.
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I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.
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I've always had a pretty good work ethic.
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I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.
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I've been very lucky that my career has spanned 10 years, and it's been a nice slow pace upward. I haven't become an overnight sensation. I'm very thankful for the pace it's taken.
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I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
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I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
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I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
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If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
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It doesn't matter what it's about for me. It's about how the song has helped you or how it's affected you.
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It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
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It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
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It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
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It's kind of lonely being a woman in the music industry. I don't get that much opportunity to see live performances by the people I love, or get a chance to meet and talk with them.
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Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods. But lyrics are a lot more tangible. They're much more specific.
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My mom and dad were academics and wanted me to go to university, so it was like a dream come true and a big push for me to start writing myself.
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Nothing outside of my child is important.
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People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
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Songwriting is a very instinctual process and I don't really understand what it's saying to me.
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That's what I call writer's block: that place when nothing good is coming out.
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The last thing I wanted to do at the time was write music. I really wanted to just have a life.
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The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
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The nanny picks up the slack, but we're very hands-on as parents and have an amazing relationship. It's been eight years and we're fantastic.
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The winter here's cold and bitter, it's chilled us to the bone. We haven't seen the sun for weeks, too long too far from home. I feel just like I'm sinking, and I claw for solid ground. I'm pulled down by the undertow, I never thought I could feel so.
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There is an abundance of incredible music out there and it's not being represented in the Summer festival forum. I just thought it would be really great fun to create a sense of community.
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They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
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They're really very autobiographical songs.
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'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
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Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
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Trying to force creativity is never good.
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Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.
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We go business class and stay at very nice hotels. It's incredibly difficult some days to keep it all together, but I must feel like it's worth it or I wouldn't keep doing it.
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We recorded all of Surfacing about an hour outside of Montreal in the woods.
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We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
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We tend to strike a really good balance. It's great that my husband is my drummer and he's in the industry.
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We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
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When you're out on the road, you have so little that is familiar to you. We have two tour buses and we caravan.
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You want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.
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