Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

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.

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.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

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

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.