I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

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

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.