Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
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. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
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… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
