The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

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

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

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.