My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.

I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.

I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society. I feel like we're social Darwinists who believe that everyone has to make it on their own. But the reality is that we all don't start out on the same footing.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?