What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to be told. Some girl actually had to show me a hairbrush and demonstrate exactly what to do. I just never figured that stuff out naturally.