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.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

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?'

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

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.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.