Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being 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 don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

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.