My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.