Joan Baez, 41 and divorced, met Steve Jobs, 27, in Palo Alto, California in 1982 and they began dating.
Baez addressed their relationship in an interview in the New York Post.
Jobs had described the relationship between him and Baez as “two accidental friends who became lovers.” Baez said it was a case of opposites attracting.
“He was always very nice to me,” she told the Post, “[but] we didn’t agree on anything. He’d say, ‘I’m going to make a computer that won’t just duplicate a Beethoven sonata — it will be better!’
“And I’d say, ‘Excuse me? What about the soul? Where’s the soul in it?’
He’d say, ‘It’ll just be better,’ and I’d be dumbfounded . . . and then we’d grab dinner.”
That was usually Indian food, she said, though later, even food was a struggle.
“[Jobs] kind of turned into a fruit-arian,” she recalled. “He wanted the woman who cooked for me to work for him, but he’d quit eating anything but nuts and grains.”
Baez’s cook stayed put.