I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there's no place to sell them.

Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.