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.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

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.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.