Stage performing is a dying art form.

Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

The people need to feel the music.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.

I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.