As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
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VALERIE TRIERWEILER I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I know politics; I know the media.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I'm not Cinderella.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the g...
VALERIE TRIERWEILER Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
VALERIE SOLANAS In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into ever...
VALERIE SIMPSON We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a high...
VALERIE SIMPSON Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
VALERIE SIMPSON It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo an...
VALERIE SIMPSON Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It...
VALERIE SIMPSON When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce oth...
VALERIE SIMPSON I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possibl...
VALERIE SIMPSON It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
VALERIE SIMPSON And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
VALERIE SIMPSON Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody tau...
VALERIE SIMPSON I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would c...
VALERIE SIMPSON I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good...
VALERIE SIMPSON My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I...
VALERIE SIMPSON You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves ...
VALERIE SIMPSON In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
VALERIE SIMPSON There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee...
VALERIE SIMPSON Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
VALERIE SIMPSON We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next...
VALERIE SIMPSON I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been aro...
VALERIE SIMPSON People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington ...
VALERIE JARRETT President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expe...
VALERIE JARRETT I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face...
VALERIE JARRETT Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, makin...
VALERIE JARRETT For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currentl...
VALERIE JARRETT Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
VALERIE JARRETT But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that...
VALERIE JARRETT No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
VALERIE JARRETT