When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.

Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.

From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

My own death threats have declined considerably.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.