Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.