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All I have to do is what's right for me.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I don't talk about my private life.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

My happiness is very fragile.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

There is a land that I can go to
When I have time to rest.
All the people I love are there
And those who love me best.

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

I'd love to play a musician in a film.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.