I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

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.

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

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