Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.
If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.
Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.
Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.
Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.
When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
I don't think about success to be famous, because I've done that at the highest level, but it's all about my children.
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.
I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.
God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.
