“I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I do...” — Linda Ronstadt Quote

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.

As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.

Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.

Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.