209 Quotes by Bonnie Raitt

When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment.

One of the things that I'm glad about, though, is that regular people can relate to me.

I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.

I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life - were all the right people at the right time.

I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.