First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

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.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

New York is the thing that seduced me.