I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.