Janis Ian Quotes

It’s neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that’s not something to be wasted.

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.

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.

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn’t really part of it.

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.