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 bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

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

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.