I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

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.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.

I talk about jobs, I talk about our veterans being mistreated.

Control what you can, acknowledge what you cannot.

The mind requires regular use to remain strong.

The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.