It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

I could drink a case of you.