Cass Elliot (1941 – 1974)
American singer who became famous as "Mama" Cass in The Mamas & the Papas; born Ellen Naomi Cohen.
My philosophy is I'm gonna fight as hard as I can to keep all the bad things from happening. But if they are gonna happen and I happen to be in the city where they are happening — like in the song, "California Earthquake" — then there's not much I can do about it. I can't uproot my whole life, just because I have a feeling that things may not work out all right. There's also always the chance that everything is going to be just swell, guys. Just hang in there. But I don't think it can happen on it's own.
I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
I've always been so apathetic. I figured okay, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I feel… maybe that's motherhood, too. I want to make a better world, I want to make sure she has some place to walk around.