Janis Ian
Janis Ian
Janis Ianis an American singer-songwriter who was mostly active in the 1960s and 1970s; her most successful song, At Seventeen, was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth7 April 1951
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
real writing talking
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head...that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft... it's second nature.
children real people
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 I was doing was valuable and important.
the-end-of-the-day goes-on realizing
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
recently
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
american-musician choosing names sides whose
To those of us who know the pain, Of valentines that never came, And those whose names were never called, When choosing sides for basketball.
american-musician dreams far gave girls ugly younger
It was long ago and far away, The world was younger than today, And dreams were all they gave for free, To ugly duckling girls like me.
gay rights people
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.
rights parent movement
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.
writing people peers
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.
mom guitar lessons
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
mean europe careers
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.
years get-better may
The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.
accepting neat i-can
It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.
born feels
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.