People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?