Grace Slick
Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.
You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.
I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.
'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
I fall down all the time because I'm such a klutz, but I have never broken a bone, and I don't eat milk or cheese ever. I like tofu cheese and soymilk in my coffee and cereal.
I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.
The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billion people don't have to see or hear it. If I've enjoyed the process of creation and I'm at peace, then what happens next is just entertainment. If mass appeal were actually something, Marilyn Monroe wouldn't be dead.
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retireCollection: Stupid
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.Collection: Events
When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.Collection: Lying
I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.Collection: Daughter
It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.Collection: Government
Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.Collection: Grateful
I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a sh*t that he looks like a f***ing turkey.Collection: Turkeys
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.Collection: Loss
I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.Collection: Honest
I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.Collection: Mushrooms
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.Collection: Crazy
I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.Collection: Feet
With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.Collection: Attitude
It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.Collection: Jobs
I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.Collection: Florida
I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.Collection: Thinking
I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.Collection: Daughter
Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.Collection: Two
Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.Collection: Boys
In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.Collection: Guy
I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.Collection: Rocks
Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.Collection: Tired
You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.Collection: Crowns
I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.Collection: Rocks
Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.Collection: Jobs
It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.Collection: Hippie
My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.Collection: Albums
You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.Collection: Fun
The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.Collection: Art
I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.Collection: Ideas
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasonsCollection: Change
Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.Collection: Rocks
You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,'' and I'd say no? That's rude.Collection: Mean
People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.Collection: Thinking