Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: December 30, 1946
I don't think," he insisted. "I feel..
When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionar….
It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe).
Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted a….
I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and f….
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God..
I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like r….
I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside ….
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God..
I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and….
We have to believe, as creators - just like a doctor doing heart surgery has to believe that he can save that person's life. You have to believe that….
If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he ju….
I realize that people need something to believe in..
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the ….
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that….
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man..
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are someti….
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing..
Your soul was like a network of spittle..
I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment..
Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that time, was to rediscover myself….