“I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.”

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs ‘Come On, Come On’ and ‘I Am A Town’, they’re two of my favorite songs.

There’s a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

When there’s an opportunity to do more, we must.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

It’s just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it’s not a thousand acres, it’s considered a ranchette.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

If we’re for one another, we’re feminists. The rest is semantics.

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

My two great loves are music and horses.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.

I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.

That little white ball won’t move until you hit it, and there’s nothing you can do after it has gone.

I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.