God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research - I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories.

I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think … Satan.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.