I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.