Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.