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

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser or a secretary. I couldn't stomach it. Later on, when I fell in love with my husband and had children, that's when my mother's earthiness or sense of femaleness kicked in.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?