But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

I can't stand what people do to each other. I think we're brilliant as a species. I think we are amazing. I think that God is incredible, that He just gave us everything. Everything in our face. Everything for us to use. And sometimes we're such shitheads. And it makes me crazy.

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

Love is a battlefield.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.