After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot