Sheryl Crow Quotes (68 Quotes)

I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future - see your doctor and be proactive about your health.

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

I feel much less pressure, ... I feel have tinges of 'This has got to be really good, this has to have meaning,' but I allow myself to enjoy it.

Then you have to go out and talk about it. It does make for a tenuous situation.

Watch out sister, watch out brother, watch our childer while they kill each other with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores.

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.

He doesn't really know anything different, ... I'm all the time telling him, 'Not all dogs get to live like this, Scout.'

I think my relationship to work has really changed the last couple of years,

I got to learn to surf.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

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

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

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

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It was a challenge in more than one way. Not only was I not working, I was in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language, and I'm with somebody who's new to me, and I experienced a lot of vulnerability ... (it) was a challenge to my ego, and in the end, was kind of exciting.

I had good intentions to do both (albums), and I started feeling like 'Wildflower' was that art album. But then I thought that any pop songs I did after that would make it overlooked.

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.

It was the first time ever I heard 16,000 people sing in unison.

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.

a great gift to give myself, to invest in my life, in all the things I wanted to do outside music.

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

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.

Approximately one in seven American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and more than 2 million Americans are living with breast cancer today. I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

Part of that is record labels continually try to work their catalog so they always have money coming in,

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.

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.

They're sort of the example for me. I'm really old-fashioned, and I believe in marriage.

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!

If it makes you happy, why the hell are you so sad

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.

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

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

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

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