People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

Everything does go in a circle.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead