I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.