Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.