I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid."

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

Only God and His angels can hear our hearts duet.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit

What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

My energy level rises but I get calmer, if that's possible. What a lot of people tend to do is get real tight and get all psyched up and take themselves out of their game.

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.