If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson.

Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.

There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass by the house where Frank Zappa was living and I'd just see people out on the porch playing guitars.