I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.
I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
