Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.