Jane Siberry Quotes

Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!

I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever happens is all good.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob?

I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much.

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I hear pounding feet in the streets below
And the women crying and the children know
That there's something wrong
And it's hard to believe that love will prevail
Oh it won't rain all the time
The sky won't fall forever
And though the night seems long
Your tears won't fall forever

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

You can't chop down a symmetry

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing ... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.