As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as the people's voice, the people's art, it was grassroots. I don't believe that the people should be estranged from their rock stars. They're not kings and queens - all rock stars are those who are able to give back a bit of culture to other people. It's people's heritage.

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

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

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.