France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

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.

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Failure is not an option.

Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

Movies are about escape.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!