Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need. Sheryl Crow More Quotes by Sheryl Crow More Quotes From Sheryl Crow I think your life informs your art. Sheryl Crow artist art thinking 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. Sheryl Crow rainbow color exercise I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine' Sheryl Crow mines hands looks I try to conduct my life with a little levity. Sheryl Crow trying inspire life You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do. Sheryl Crow regret eye mistake 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. Sheryl Crow country children school 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. Sheryl Crow compassion college night I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority. Sheryl Crow mom pride boys When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in history. Sheryl Crow media acceptance fall 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 naughty hero dirty 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 kind artist together I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler. Sheryl Crow labs golden 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 issues labels hate I got to learn to surf. Sheryl Crow surf surfing 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 theory song believe I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery. Sheryl Crow plastic surgery people 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 rock-n-roll musician integrity 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. Sheryl Crow patriotic real military 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. Sheryl Crow writing philosophy 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. Sheryl Crow writing song long