Claire Forlani

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.