One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

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.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

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.

I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.