Quotes by Jane Siberry

“Id probably be famous now if I wasnt such a good waitress.”

“Theres an honor table with a box of CDs and a money jar. They cost me $2 each to make, but a lot of people are paying $20. They say, Theres no way to pay you more for your music, so it opens the door for people who want to balance how much value they get from the songs.”

“My traditional records are just chosen from my longtime favorite songs. But I have lots of music left in me; Im just waiting for it to arrive.”

“I feel a huge release since I made this decision. I sold my house a few days ago, and Im ready to start a new life. I dont need much money, because Ive stripped things down to whats basic.”

“I ended my mail-order business, and I made that decision with regret, because my whole goal is to make my music available to people, not the opposite. But I couldnt handle it. I couldnt get the freedom I needed as an independent artist.”

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

The Taxi Ride, from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. Im consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and thats a sad song.