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" I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. "

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" I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all. "

" Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway. "

" I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids. "

" Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. "

" Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music. "

" We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart. "

" Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. "

" There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind. "

" I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire. "

" I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. "

" I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. "

" I 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. "

" Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman. "

" Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't. "

" I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary. "

" I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. "

" It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect. "

" I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with. "

" Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck. "

" I do feel my loved ones that have passed on; I feel them looking over my shoulder... So yeah, that's pretty profound, when you're not expecting it, you didn't particularly believe in it and then it just sort of happens too often to ignore. "

" I have a really full life, both within music and outside it. "

" I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. "

" There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music. "