Phoebe Snow Quotes

All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn’t stand a challenge… I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn’t get involved or fight back.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter’s death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn’t know if I’d survive it.

There’s a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who’s not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you’re going to fix him and make him better, and of course it’s impossible.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Sometimes when you’re overwhelmed by a situation – when you’re in the darkest of darkness – that’s when your priorities are reordered.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

I realized that I’ve lived half my life already, and it’s time to believe in – and stand up for – myself.

It’s no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

I was totally ignored for a while… that’s a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don’t have any time for you.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls ‘a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.’ Who knows how many people in this country have it?

I know there’s a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains… awareness after the body’s gone.

If the baby is sick, you won’t find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it’s an immediate association, but I don’t do that anymore. Now I’m true to myself as an artist again. I’m more vocally oriented.

There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.