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

- Janis Ian
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A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

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.

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.

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.

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 better if you leave yourself open to it.

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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