There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
BONNIE RAITTThere’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.
BONNIE RAITTI 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.
BONNIE RAITTI think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is.
BONNIE RAITTIt can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle – it shows people that it’s big business against the people.
BONNIE RAITTAnd just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.
BONNIE RAITTI 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.
BONNIE RAITTIn my early twenties, if I wasn’t getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long – I hope we get better with age.
BONNIE RAITTI can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
BONNIE RAITTWhatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that’s you and that isn’t necessarily you.
BONNIE RAITTI don’t think there’s ever been any music quite like what we came up with.
BONNIE RAITTWhether you’re playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you’re in that moment.
BONNIE RAITTYou know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.
BONNIE RAITTI made my first album, and I guess it wasn’t a fluke, because now I’m on my 16th.
BONNIE RAITTI was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.
BONNIE RAITTThank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.
BONNIE RAITTLife gets mighty precious when there’s less of it to waste.
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