I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.