Crow also graced the stage at the "Love Rising" event, where she performed her song "Every Day Is a Winding Road."
"This song is 30 years old, and it's strange how it just kind of rewrites its meaning all the time," she said. "Sometimes I do feel like a stranger in my own life, when I've got to explain to my little boys that some of us don't get to live like we want to live, because it just doesn't line up with somebody's political (agenda)."
She also shared that her song "Hard to Make a Stand" was inspired by a trans person who she knew from a coffee shop. "She was very friendly — she would hand out flowers, but everyone was afraid of her. This was an unusual thing to see 30 years ago, and the patrons complained. And so I came in one morning and I said, where's that lovely woman? She actually reminded me of my grandmother. And the owner said, 'The patrons complained, and so we asked her to maybe not frequent us quite so often.' And the next morning she slipped a note under the door that said, 'If I'm not here, you're not here,' and signed it, 'Miss Creation'" — as reflected in the sometimes obscure verses of the classic tune," she continued. "And so I wrote a song about her. And this was during the same week that a young woman went to an abortion clinic in Texas and they shot her outside the abortion clinic. Now, this is 30 years ago, and these are the very things that we are still talking about. We've come a hell of a long way, and I'm happy about that. And we're addressing people living their truths and how one person's freedom is not compromised if we are all living our truth."
