It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don’t get that one. Janis Ian Read Quote
I think all of us thought that by the ’70s, at the latest the ’80s, all the world’s problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought. Janis Ian Read Quote
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. Janis Ian Read Quote
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. Janis Ian Read Quote
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that’s not something to be wasted. Janis Ian Read Quote
That’s an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It’s still thrilling. Janis Ian Read Quote
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before. Janis Ian Read Quote
It’s what I do well – I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That’s probably the only thing I do better than my peers. Janis Ian Read Quote
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. Janis Ian Read Quote
