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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."


"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."


"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."


"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."


"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."


"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."


"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."


"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."


"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
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