I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.
I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.
I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.
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I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.