Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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I've never been an optimist.
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I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.