I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I love my children and I would never sacrifice them for anything - I had to find a way to simultaneously be a mother and wife and fulfill my duties and still be true to myself as a writer.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.