I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.