I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.