Sheryl Crow Quotes

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.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people.

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.'

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have!

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes.

You're my favorite mistake

I snore. I've had two or three people complain about it.

When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in our history.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.

I got to learn to surf.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad

Took your car, drove to Texas. Sorry honey, but I suspected, you and I can't cry anymore.

Then when I cut my hair short, my career tanked for about four years!

Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.

Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.

I think your life informs your art.

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion.

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it oughta be. It seems like everytime I try to make it right, it all comes down on me. Please say honestly you won't give up on me, and I shall believe.

My sister, she says she knows Elvis.

Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

I don't need to reiterate the fact that that everyone has a relationship with cancer. Whether it's an individual-personal relationship - whether it's with family or friends - we've all been touched by cancer.

Doing yoga on the road was really a life-saver, and a life-changer ... .It kept me focused and gave me more control over the way I divided my energy. I realize that if [a place of goodness] is the basis for all decision-making, then the road is clear.

Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.

Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving."

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

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.

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

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.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm 'n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.

Technology has helped me with the writing and recording processes, and it's a great way to reach out to fans of my music, ... Dell's combining all these different technologies and making it really easy to enjoy them.

No one said it would be easy
But no one said it'd be this hard

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand ... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am ... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.

One of the things that has changed my life - and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality - is meditating. The simple act of making my brain shut off for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night may not seem like much, but what ends up happening, besides creating space in your day, is your awake posture begins to replicate your meditative posture,

So what if right now everything is wrong?

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.

People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.

The only person who can save you is you: That going to be the thing that informed the rest of my life.

I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm ... what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

Don't the wounded bird still sing?

I want to collaborate with Amy [Winehouse] because she's really hot and cool right now. I know one song Rehab was very popular particularly because a lot of young people are in rehab as well. In fact I'm thinking about going. It looks like loads of fun and I know my career will benefit from it.

There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.