Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

The heart has a heart of its own.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.