I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

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.

Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.