My creativity and my political work are linked. I don’t do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

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.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form – to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

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.

The women’s movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we’ll never be able to count.

When we make mistakes, say, I’m blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

People love to hear the mistakes you’ve made.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they’ll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they’ll eat it.

My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.