Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impac….

I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though it irritates me that he plays ….

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over t….

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society..

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me..

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs..

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer..

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free..

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11..

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling..

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has..

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well..

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am..

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking..

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. A….

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me..

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Bapt….

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get ….

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something….

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to..

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things..