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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.

Dar Williams

Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
DAR WILLIAMS

Careers Couple Thinking
If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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Attitude Crunchy Wisconsin
I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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Discover Feelings Optimism Optimistic
I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
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Play Sound Thinking
When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Bout Evolve Ourselves
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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Albums Play Song
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
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Come Notion Space
At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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Country People Portland Roots
A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
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Friend Psychotherapy Society Straightforward
Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.
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Believe Opportunity Writing
There was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
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Dialed Feelings Quitting Watches
For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
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Birthday Blow Couple
I have a sordid past.
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Happen Past Sordid
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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Citing Favorite Thinking
I’m just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
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Change Movement Structure Trying
What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
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Choices Political Real

I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.

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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.

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