I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.