Bonnie Raitt
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187 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Bonnie Raitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Julia, I don't know how I can live up to this. I'm shaking in my boots.
I'm so honored that you get me so deeply because it takes all of those qualities you like in me are in you. And that's how we make that connection. I know that's the truth. And I've seen them in you. So thank you for honoring me with that.
I really do.
Absolutely. Proudly 74 as of November last year. Nice. Nice. And how old do you feel, Bonnie? Oh, my God. Probably 50. Uh-huh. Maybe. Maybe. You know, the wear and tear on joints from being active and injuries here and there and all that stuff. You know, just wear and tear from age is the only way I feel a little bit more comfortable.
I wouldn't say less vibrant, but it takes a little bit more to get up off the couch. You know, I can tell that the parts are getting a little worn. Creaky? A little worn. I'm trying to keep the soft tissue and the spirit still gooey. Okay. That's smart.
Yes. And I work at it. I mean, I try to do yoga at least three times a week and I hike and I move around and try not to sit around too much. But it's, yeah, 74 is different than 64. And, you know, we'll all have to keep lifting each other up through these rough times because that's the part that beats us down more than gravity, I think. Yeah.
You know, the cruelty and the suffering and the war and the endless stupidity and what? Are you kidding? I think that wears you out. Beats down the spirit. It's harder to get up off the spiritual couch when you get that pounding you down. Oh, I like that. I like that.
I really think that you're more relaxed about the things that could bother you a lot more, the triggers. You recognize that you get reactive and trigger, and it's just not worth the agita. It's not healthy for you. It doesn't end up harboring resentments, harboring anger. And keep stuffing it and not saying how you really feel that works to get you in the world.
But somehow I can't separate the fact that I've been I'm in a tremendously lucky position of having enough power to be self-powered, you know, in the business. I mean, I run my own ship with a great team, but. I don't work for anybody and I don't have to answer to anybody. And I'm living in a time when women can carve their own destinies a lot more than my mother's generation even.
So I think I've earned the ability to be more relaxed from 36 years of work in a sobriety program, but also spiritual and therapy. And some of it is just the age. I can't separate the times we're in from having been a feminist. You know, I mean, if we were fighting what women had to fight in the 1930s. Oh, please. I probably look like my grandmother did when she was 74.
It was tougher to be a woman before. And I think we know more. We know how to get out of situations that are really unpleasant and not working. We're wiser. And we get the hell out of that situation and stop hanging out with people that are
draining us right and that's a wisdom that hopefully could come earlier but for me it took a long time right so every decade I'm more I'm not putting up with any more of this crap and I'm more comfortable where I'm at and if I'm not comfortable it's up to me to move out of the way
That was very well spoken, but... But, yeah, I think that I'm better at that than I was. I'm less at the mercy of other people. And I've heard a lot of women on your podcast and heard a lot of other women that I admire and read their books and have friends that are older than me. And they also have told me they are just more comfortable with themselves than they used to be. Mm-hmm.
Yes, and that's diving deep early on, but why not? Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. The way those two uppercase and lowercase came up for me was in being asked about the balance of my life, you know? What bugs you? And what bugs me is...
And what has driven a lot of, as I've learned over the years with therapy and in sobriety, working on my programs and finding out, trying to analyze why I do what I do and why I was moved to overindulge in this or pick the wrong partner or why do I, you know, why have I been the way that I've been when it's clearly not working? And that's something that comes with age.
But one of the problems that I recognized early on was ever since I was little, I really... got more strokes and attention and love by performing outside of my family unit at school, even for my relatives. I became Bonnie the cute little redhead with temples.
If I did a little Shirley Temple tap dancer and then later, you know, if I played the guitar for my folks' friends, I got a lot of positive attention. By being extroverted and I think that redheaded personality thing, you're born with that color hair and you're supposed to grow into it. So I got what I didn't get at home by being big Bonnie, you know, and I'll say that that became later.
When I became professional, I'm more comfortable on stage and I always wondered why. Why when I come off stage, I don't have the same self-esteem or lack of self-judgment. So I was beating myself up a lot and privately as a little girl when I went back. And so I wonder when that started.
I was never that comfortable when I wasn't performing the version of myself that was a good little girl or the cute girl or the talented girl or the all A's or the... daddy's little girl and not cause too much of a ruckus. Then when I was just back in my room, I would pour my heart out and play the guitar and just sing these sad ballads and longing and look in the mirror and hate what I saw.
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