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…

- Janis Ian

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 …

- Janis Ian

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

- Janis Ian

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

- Janis Ian

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

- Janis Ian

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

- Janis Ian

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.

- Janis Ian

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

- Janis Ian

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

- Janis Ian