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

The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

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

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.