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.

You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

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.

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels really came into focus.

The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.