When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.