Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

I wish I could just project everything on the paper.

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

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.