With Breaking Silence partially about coming out as a gay woman, Ian has developed a reputation for telling it like it is in poetic but often blunt, sobering colors. Even so, she sounds at peace with her choices and her life. I've got to look at the world in a different way. She also was interviewed by Melissa Etheridge for the June 13 issue's cover story. It explains why repressive regimes tend to stop music before anything else.
Music is so great because it crosses all cultures.
The politics of hate is the easiest politics in the world to preach. You always can convince someone to hate someone else. We seem to need someone to oppress. We've got to teach people that that's unacceptable behavior. And that's got to start at home.