Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.