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

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

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

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.