When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.