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.

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

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

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

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

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.