Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

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.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

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.