As a documentary of her life is released, the folk singer answers your questions on spirituality, competing with Joni Mitchell and running around naked at Burning Man
I’ve met you lots of times backstage after concerts and have always been struck by how warm, friendly and open youI’m sure I do. You’ll need to give me a bit to think about it over a 60-year period … I remember the British audiences seemed so restrained. One night in Leeds, I said something awful like: “Is everybody out there alive?” They just couldn’t express themselves. So I didn’t know where to go next, except to be rude, I guess.The confidence in my own voice has never flagged.
. We all make fun of it. Not all, but the outsiders. It’s a community. It can’t be knocked for that. You do go there with something to give somebody else. In some ways, the hippy movement created a community for a lot of lost souls. I think our failures were outstripped by the good stuff. Nobody back then could have possibly written what scenario we’re going through today.
‘If I want be hopeful, I have to find ways and reasons to be hopeful’ … Baez with James Baldwin and James Forman, from the documentary Joan Baez I Am a Noise.I think so. I tend more towards Buddhist and Native American thought. For me, the spirits are quite real. I talk to trees. I haven’t had a therapist now in 20 years. I literally talk to the trees to get answers.
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