I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

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.