That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.

I'm the original hunter-down-of-fabulous-things. Twenty years ago I sat down and decided that I would create a really wonderful image, an unforgettable image. And now I'm kind of stuck with it. It's like when I don't wear my fringy, gypsy stuff, people kind of look at me like, 'What's wrong?