All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

Dreams can come true, but you have to go for it.

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.