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

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

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