I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.