Janis Ian Quotes
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The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.
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I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.
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I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
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When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.
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I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.
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I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
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I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.
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I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.
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At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.
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I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
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It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.