Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?
Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
Where I fit in is confusing to me.
The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.
I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.
There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
