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

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.

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

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

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

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

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.