Being Able To Take Care Of Myself

I Keep All My Poems In My Journals And Lock Them Away. They Are The Start Of Everything.

Right Now I'm Not Involved With Anybody, But I Hope By 75 I Will Be Again.

The Clothes I Wear... That Doesn't Change. I Love Long Dresses. I Love Velvet. I Love High Boots. I Never Change. I Love The Same Eye Make-up. I'm Not A Fad Person. I Still Have Everything I Had Then. That's One Part Of Me... That's Where My Songs Come From. There's A Song On The New Fleetwood Mac Album [mirage] That Says, 'going Back To The Velvet Underground/back To The Floor That I Love,' Because I Always Put My Bed On The Floor. 'to A Room With Some Lace And Paper Flowers/ Back To The Gypsy That I Was.'

Even In My Really Bad, Drugged-out Days, I Didn't Go Away. I Still Toured, Still Did Interviews. I Never Gave Up The Fight. That's Why I'm Who I Am Today, Because I Didn't Leave. And I Think I Made The Right Choice.

That's The Words: "so I'm Back To The Velvet Underground" - Which Is A Clothing Store In Downtown San Francisco, Where Janis Joplin Got Her Clothes, And Grace Slick From Jefferson Airplane, It Was This Little Hole In The Wall, Amazing, Beautiful Stuff - "back To The Floor That I Love, To A Room With Some Lace And Paper Flowers, Back To The Gypsy That I Was."