I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Some suggestions for you :

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.