I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.