Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.