People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

Got to lose control before you take control.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

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.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.