My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.
I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.
Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.
There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.
When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"
I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.
Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.
I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.
Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.
Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'
I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.
I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.
The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.
We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.
