More From Janis Ian
- "‘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."
- "I had a vague idea of the song’s impact in the ’60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood ‘Society’s Child’ real impact."
- "I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me."
More In Society
- "I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I’ve done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society."― George Saunders
- "The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country."― David Cameron
- "The belief that the good in American society will finally win out… I don’t believe any more."― Elia Kazan