Sheryl Crow Quotes

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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!

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

I got to learn to surf.

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Sheryl Crow