If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.

I love being a star more than life itself.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.