I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.

You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person? How did he get that factory worker to come out of the factory and be on camera?" You want to believe that person is real.

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.