My sunglasses are like my guitar.

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.