Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular,… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so,… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“No matter how you tell yourself It's what we all go through Those lines are pretty hard to take When they're staring back at… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.” — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
