Sheryl Crow quotes:

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.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

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.

I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments ... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

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.

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.

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.

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.

I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar.

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

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.

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

I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.

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.

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.

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

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

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

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.

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

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.

One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

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.

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

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.

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

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

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

We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and she's still that person who, when things look dire, lifts me up and reminds me of who I am and that we all have a capacity for greatness.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.

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

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

if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad~?

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

I got to learn to surf.

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.

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.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

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...Everything that happens to you influences your writing...The writing process for me is pretty much always the same-it's a solitary experience...I have yet to write that one song that defines my career...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.

All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying, "Maybe not a bike!"

Are you strong enough to be my man?

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.

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

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 diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have a healthy cynicism, but not anger.

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 pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

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.'

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

I think your life informs your art.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.

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.

I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

If it makes you happy it can't be that bad

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

If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone.

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

I'm one of a dying breed who goes out and tours all the time. Labels don't spend the money to send people out to play before they become famous, but we did do that so the fans we have are word of mouth fans who have been travelling around with us for years, and they buy the albums, but they are also the ones who go out and get the bootlegs. I don't discourage bootlegging, I like playing live, I don't think it hurts my album sales at all if there are bootlegs out there. Who cares?

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.

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