It’s incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.
BONNIE RAITTThe generation I grew up in was the beginning of “stand up for yourself,” whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn’t have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
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Thank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
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I’m in a relationship, and I’ve been in one in a while, but all the people I’ve been with at various points – and I’ve had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life – were all the right people at the right time.
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Whether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel – it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it’s James Brown or Joni Mitchell.
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We can choose, you know, we ain’t no amoeba.
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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
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With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.
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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
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There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.
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I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.
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I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide.
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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn’t owned yet – nobody taxes the sun yet.
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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp.
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