When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

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

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

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 thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.