I Would Rather Feel Things In Extreme

Elvis Might Have Compromised His Musical Style A Bit Towards The End, But That Doesn't Mean That Artists From The Rock N' Roll/folk-roots Culture - Of Which He Was Not Really A Part - Shouldn't Get Better As They Get Older, Like The Great Jazz Or Blues Artists.

In 1967 I Entered Harvard As A Freshman, Confident - In The Way That Only 17-year-olds Are - That I Could Change The World. My Major Was African Studies, And My Plan Was To Travel To Tanzania, Where President Julius Nyerere Was Creating A Government Based On Democracy And Socialism.

I Grew Up In Los Angeles In A Quaker Family, And For Me Being Quaker Was A Political Calling Rather Than A Religious One.

You Don't Have To Look A Certain Way To Have A Hit Record.

Since I Was 20 Years Old, I've Been A Kind Of Corporation. I'd Wake Up In The Morning And My Job Was To Be 'bonnie Raitt' In Capital Letters.