It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space is different. I lost my mojo once. It was like Austin Powers. I don't know why or how, but I had to get it back. And I did.

We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

I have a sordid past.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.