Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.