Hidden in this abbey....

"I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl, last time I checked."
"I would like to think I'm a raisin girl, because in my mind they're more open-minded. Cornflake girls are totally self-centered, don't care about anything or anybody."
"I think I'm a magnet for people who want to be alone with themselves. It's not about being afraid to be with other people."
"I hated my name. My body was screaming to be called something, and it wasn't Myra Ellen."
"I had a really big crush on Jesus. I used to think that I would have been a really good girl-friend for him. I got into big trouble for that."
"... I waited a long time before giving up my virginity, because of this feeling: 'how can I be a nice, respectable girl and want to do this?' And more than anything I wanted respect from men, my father in particular. And even at that age I felt that Jesus was a real, living presence in my life. That can be a bit of a disadvantage. It's weird when you're giving a guy head at 15 and you're thinking 'Jesus is looking at me!'"
"I had good memories of who I was before I was five, and then I became everybody else's idea of who I was."
"I write about things that I hide from myself and to this place that doesn't get dealt with much. And in a certain point, um, you know, you have to write about it, or it just stays locked up inside. So writing about it, my songs becomes my teachers."
"I don't feel a part of any kind of sisterhood. Again, it's the most disappointing thing, where I get criticized by women more than men on how I play the piano. They find it offensive. They find itexpress myself, so if you're truly a strong, independent woman, then how could you possibly find me being a strong, independent woman offensive ?"
"I found the secret to life .. I'm okay when everything is not okay ..."
"I go into a real vulnerable side of myself. That's where I am finding a lot of hidden stuff, as a woman afraid to be vulnerable, because I think I will be weak, thinking I'll be taken advantage of, thinking I won't know where to draw the line. But I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore!"
"On this record, I try to hold hands with violence. I'm holding hands with him and it's like 'Let's go get some dresses and hang out together.'"
"Very few people are willing to admit anything that in their mind is a weakness. So, I started being honest for 15 minutes a day and it was excruciating, how I really felt when I felt like I was strong and being clever, what I was really doing was being totally intimidated, trying to make another person feel bad about themselves, I mean, I would rationalize everything, you can justify anything, so that's how it started and then after the first six weeks of that fifteen minutes of honesty I was shocked to see what I was really thinking and really feeling, that means if you don't want to talk to your mother on the phone you say 'I'm so sick of my mother calling me' or what ever it is."
"I'd be quite happy, as an artist, if I knew that a verse, even a line in one of my songs could do for people what 'Thelma and Louise' did for me, liberate them in some way, particularly from a fear of the darker side of their own nature. What is any art form worth if it doesn't do that? Isn't that what all great art is all about?"