Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters..

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes..

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste..

I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope t….

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists cr….

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my famil….

Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In ….

Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we ….

I don't need any drug to show me Heaven And I sure know how to spend plenty of time cleaning Hell But I'm missin' that feeling of falling..

I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships..

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet..

When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you'….

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder..

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music..

Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups w….

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it..

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one..

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist..

Between the redwoods, growing up and enjoying nature, camping on almost every vacation, and getting to go to summer camp in the Adirondacks, it was r….

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Stud….