When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained. |
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. |
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs. |
People love to hear the mistakes you've made. |
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'. |
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? |
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility. |
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point. |
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how. |
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. |
If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing. |