It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.