The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him.

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.