I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I love being alive. I like being a human being.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

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.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.