I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

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

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.