I see bodies as individual things.

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

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.