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

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted..

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. Tha….

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So….

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then ….

I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking….

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….

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

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..

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….

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers..

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the bes….

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career..

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!.