Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up. There was so much exploration of gender at that time. Women were showing up with the range of ways of being female in the world and men were showing up with the range of being male in the world.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism we get caught up in with people like Donald Trump.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.