I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

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.

Once, we lived to love. Now, we live for power. The world is changing. But we cannot stop the evolution, or everything will come apart.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

Infinity has got to become mine so that I can know which way to turn, so that I can know in what direction something like morning is breaking.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.