I watched Janis one time – we opened for her – and that’s the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.
I have no fear, I have only love.
The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.
We fought very hard for feminism, for women’s rights. What I’m seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don’t know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We’re losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out.
Klonopin – more deadly than coke.
The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.
If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
Thunder only happens when it’s raining...
And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do.
I’m timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I’ll never be in style, but I’ll always be different.
When you’re hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don’t need the money, but there’s an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There’s a love there; we’re a band of brothers.
I wouldn’t like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.
It’s really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you’re in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.
If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.
We don’t need to have somebody that’s gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It’s like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.
I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.
The people that can’t sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can’t make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.
Most bands people have side projects and it’s not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.
That’s not going to happen, because I don’t want it to happen. I don’t want a movie about me until I’m very, very old – when I’m very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.
I sketch the faces upside down because it’s like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.