You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.

The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.