American - Musician | April 7, 1951 -
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
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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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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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It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.
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I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.
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That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
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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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Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
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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.
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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.
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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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Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
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