Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Marijuana has a lot of very good medical uses, and I truly believe it should be legal, but for just recreational use it wasn't my drug. I didn't like it.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.