All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.