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" 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. "

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" I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy. "

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" Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again. "

" When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do. "

" The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar. "

" I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person. "

" If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star. "

" If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time. "

" Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice. "

" I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90. "

" Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was. "

" My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick. "

" Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't. "

" 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. "

" You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. "

" But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman. "

" Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone. "

" I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer. "

" Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. "

" I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. "

" I don't really like to be filmed. "

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Really

" Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. "

" I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers. "

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" He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor. "

" 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 wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. "

" I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio. "

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Doing

Days

" 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. "

" If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? "

" If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up. "

" For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us. "