My career is based on the slow build of an audience based on putting on a good show live and putting out a record every couple of years. I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.

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

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

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.