I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been and people we've met. It's just been a really enjoyable ride.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I realizedJune had never beenjust a monthmusic...never just a trembleon my lipswarmth was nevermerely a blanket.

When it’s not meant to make you up, it’s meant to fake you up. Just say no and act right. Be bold to say “no”.

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Inactivity is death.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.