33 Quotes by Phoebe Snow

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

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.

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

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.

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?

Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!