If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself. — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience… — Joan Osborne Copy Share
It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And… — Joan Osborne Copy Share
