I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time..

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and ….

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk..

I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you're going to be is sloppy or….

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether the….

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things we….

You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record..

Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I me….

I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can p….

I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous re….

I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dolla….

The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights iss….

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there..

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living..

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of ou….

Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to ….

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its o….

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it..

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House..

I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it so….

You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to d….