Quotes by Sheryl Crow

• That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
• 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.
• Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.
• People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
• No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
• Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
• 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.
• Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
• It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.
• The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
• Where I fit in is confusing to me.
• Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
• When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
• You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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!
• When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.
• I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
• I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
• 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.
• 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.
• A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
• 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 become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.
• I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.
• I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
• I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.
• 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 think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.
• I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.
• I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.
• I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
• 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.
• I got to learn to surf.
• I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
• 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 have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.
• I try to conduct my life with a little levity.