I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.