Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.