I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.