I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.