I Love Jana
 

This is the latest A in the Jana Q&A over at The Nicksfix:

(I'm not exactly a "bleeding heart liberal" but I do have two grandkids who have caused me to share almost identical views as Jana with regard to ecology and politics.)

Hi Bridget. Thank you for your comments and recommendations. I’m not asking to be political or religious in any of these answers, for those of you concerned. I’m answering questions honestly and with great care and it is surprising to me that I have ANY political answers. Being a singer, I’m not the first person people have ever come to and asked such heavy political questions about Africa, the music business, or about Christianity. ;) I’ve thought about these issues often all along, but this is the first forum where I’ve ACCIDENTALLY written on these subjects. When I agreed to answer these questions, I sincerely believed people would only ask about Stevie and the tour. But I’ll keep answering until it seems like I shouldn’t.

As far as our consumption of resources and our carelessness with pollution, it all comes down to money and discipline. If someone, a company, or the government is benefiting monetarily from something that is negative to our health, it will continue. MONEY CONTROLS MOST DECISIONS. I give cigarettes as my biggest example. Being in a smokey bar if you are a non-smoker is equivalent to smoking 4 cigarettes in a two hour time frame. If the cigarette companies have gotten by with this and their profit for so long with it’s proven health crisis, even for nonsmokers, what’s to stop the world from wasting and polluting in other areas that don’t have surgeon general warnings posted on them? Even the warning of death, by law, will not stop it if it is profiting greatly. I worked with a woman who has never even tried a cigarette, and the health insurance companies wouldn’t give her insurance because she had the lungs of a smoker. She worked in a bar.

If it was proven that we would all get cancer and die within a week from the pollution created by consumption, the government would shut these places down immediately the way they were able to shut down all air travel during the week of 9-11. It seems as though there are so many issues, that the people in charge of making the decisions only have enough time, care, finances, or help to handle the emergency issues, much like a heart attack victim in the emergency room moving to the front of the line over someone who needs stitches or has bronchitis. I have no idea how to handle it except that it starts with our individual lives.

As horrible and frustrating as the gas prices are, what would happen to the air quality if we all drove hybrid cars? What if SUV’s, buses, semi’s and every vehicle and airplane had some sort of healthier fuel option? I’m way out of my realm, but these are the things I think about. Maybe the financial responsibility will move us into another healthier world with less pollution. The profits the oil tycoons are gaining are beyond unethical. And there is nothing we can do about it because most of us need vehicles to get to work. Is there someone, some leader with enough power to put a ceiling on the cost of fuel? These high gas prices are putting airlines and many businesses that rely on fuel to go into so much debt, that it’s seriously adding to their need to file for bankruptcy. And what will your food cost at the grocery store, your clothes, and everything else that is moved to your cities with these high gas prices?

I think we all need to recycle whenever possible. I also think we need to waste less. Shortsightedness is dangerous to our air quality, our safety, and our health. If you believe IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU, your families, and your children’s children, then maybe making it personal will make it real. And if it becomes real in your heart, change will begin at home, and the domino effect will change the world for the better for all generations to come.

She just needs to stop talking, lol seriously she is so annoying

Chris

lmfao and singing

what are you talking about? What she said kicked ass. :confused:

I have no comment on the singing.

I agree with what Chris and Danielle said. :)

Why? Seriously, did you guys read what she said? :confused:

It's not that..She's just all over the place, rambling...it wasn't the message so much as the way she says things..And then tommorrow she will be rambling about the Love of God, and how teaching abstinence will cure world aids like last week...

Chris

While this most recent post is nice, I just haven't found much of what Jana has to say very illuminating, especially with respect to Stevie.:shrug:

It's almost like all the questions about Stevie, the tour and singing have already been asked... maybe "we" need to come up with some better questions for her...:shrug: That was a looong reply and perhaps hard to follow for those who have no interest in such things in the first place. :lol: BTW, that goofy personality test thing... I came up as a Haughty Intellectual. How shocking.

Laura

I should start a *Jana Appreciation Thread* and only Amber and me would be members. I like Jana. She's a good backup singer, she seems really nice and the band seems to like her ok. Her answers haven't always been great but she's not a public speaker. She's a singer. Stevie's and Lindsey's speeches and what they've had to say have sucked hard at times but that's not what they do either. After reading this latest answer? I didn't know she was smart on top of everything else. She gives *dumb, annoying blondes* like us a good name!

You ROCK. She is seriously annoying. She needs to sing and just shut the f up.

She doesn't need to sing either. She is always off key and over powering.

Hehehe. I love you.

I will say she got better in 05...but on the mac tour she sounded like a cow

Chris

i find it so funny that a rock star's backup singer who is doing a q&a for fun has been dragged into a political discussion... i was reading it going "whaaa? aren't people going to ask her what her favorite food is or anything?"

and about her age.... why does she feel the need to be so coy about it? for anyone who wants to know and doesn't already- she's less than a week younger than me... just turned 25.

I thought that she was in her 30s.:confused:

And I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.:laugh:

I'm not fond of Jana myself, and her answers are rather annoying.

At the AHI benefit this past August, when Stevie introduced Jana, she said it was her birthday and she was 25. I, too, thought she was older than that, so either she really is 25 or Stevie was lying. :shocked:

I could have swown that I read that she was in her 30s. There was an article about her and her husband who got a job playing trumpet (I think) for Bette Midler. I think that it was there but I am not 100% sure.

EDIT: I found this info on her website.
She also manages, books, and stars in a successful band of her own over the past 11 years called "Jana and The One" out of Santa Barbara, California.

That would mean she started the band at 14. I don't think so.

I thought Jana was older than 25 too. No offense to her coz I think she's pretty but she looks way older than 25 to me.

To have her resume there is no way that she could be 25. That is one of the reasons why I thought she was about 35.

Maybe Stevie was kidding? Did she laugh? Peeps do that when they don't want to admit their age.

I didn't see the resume while I was typing. Yep, she looks more like 35 and that would make her 24 when she started that band?

Yeah that sounds more like it. 14 I find hard to believe.:laugh:

I read all her answers and I thought she was fine. She's a kid. She sounds naive and sweet. Her comments on the environment were more logical than what I have heard out of the mouths of most elected officials, idealistic though they may be.
Many artists are idiots when it comes to politics. I mean, come on, Stevie said something to the effect that Bill Clinton was too young to be president, because he was near her age and she couldn't keep track of who was on what bus :laugh:

Jana is a decent back up singer and I think she is kind of cute.

I totally agree with this statement!

I wouldn't exactly call her annoying... she's probably doing a few people some good, which is fine. It's just not something I would expect on Stevie's site! I never understood why anyone would ask Jana questions anyway. No offense to Jana, but she just doesn't have the history there to be able to share some insight as far as I'm concerned. Give her a decade or two....

No that's the thing, Stevie didn't laugh. And I was as close to her as a human being could possibly be. Heck I was closer to her than her bandmates on the stage with her! The reason I remember she didn't laugh is because when she said it, I was pretty surprised, so I took a good look at Stevie and Jana to see their reactions and neither one had an out-of-the-ordinary look on their faces. But apparently it was some sort of inside joke.

I was 25 on my last birthday. :shrug: The one before that too.:lol:

Bravo! :laugh:

I agree, and the only questions she really will answer have nothing do to with Stevie. She refuses to give any kind of specific answer about Stevie, even if you KNOW she knows the answer..

Chris

At the Albuquerque show, stevie sung happy birthday to her and said, what is it now, 28, and was acting like she was kidding around. Sounds like they are joking about the twenties.

Totally agree with you, and MacMan, who you agreed with!

I also sort of wonder why the question was even asked of her. I mean, why would you go to Stevie Nicks' back up singer with that kind of question? :shrug: I don't get it. Personally, I've found the Q&A with jana highly annoying. She answers the same quesions over and over, and anything about Stevie (which is what she herself said she expected to be asked about) she says she has no idea, no informaton, etc. Well, why the hell bother then? Just answer the questions you can answer - I hate reading a good question, only to see her tired old "I have no idea what Stevie [insert anything here]." You can also tell she's totally conscious of Stevie's people reading it. Can you say "kiss ass" along with me?

Other than that, I love her.

Other than that? Hun, her Q&A is all we know about her. :lol: There's no "other".

*Thud*




The sound of Cat's sarcasm falling flat on the floor.

yeah. You needed a :rolleyes: or a :cool: to make it work.

:rolleyes:

:laugh:

iloveyou

Mwah, baby! :xoxo: Right back at ya!