Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.