There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.

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

The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.

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.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

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.