I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.