I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

I'm not really a nostalgic person.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.