Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

I've always considered myself a writer.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.