Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.

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

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.