Janis Ian Quotes

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record. - Janis Ian

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it. - Janis Ian

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has. - Janis Ian

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. - Janis Ian

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read. - Janis Ian

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. - Janis Ian

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 things. - Janis Ian

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. - Janis Ian

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. - Janis Ian

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