People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (also) had a very specific locale; Chicago is to this movie what Boston was to 'Good Will Hunting,' ... It was enormously heartfelt and, ultimately, nobody could deny being moved by his story.

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

These people think they have defeated Iran, but they should know that Iran is not a place where they can do what they did with Libya and Iraq.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment