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" Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking. "

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" The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract. "

" 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan. "

" You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal. "

" I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music. "

" When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned. "

" Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life. "

" I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were. "

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" I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art. "

" 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. "

" Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971. "

" If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy. "

" When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. "

" Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it. "

" If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll. "

" Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted. "

" I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that. "

" I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are. "

" Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock. "

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" I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again. "

" Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to. "

" I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long, but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9. "

" You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing. "

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