When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.