I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.

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.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

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.

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

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

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.