I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

I wonder how many books you have read?

Appreciate every breath you take. Someone else didn't get to take another breath today.

Our journeys are different but we can share the same well traveled path during parts of our excursion. Small victories win wars not single battles.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

I can't... I find that I can't concentrate. On anything. I can't really..." Rhage's eyes drifted to Zsadist. "How do you live with it? All the anger. The pain. The...

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.